Description of the Project and Its Significance

This project will preserve, document, and make accessible a carefully selected body of the most significant early twentieth-century audio recordings from South Asia along with related documentation. Both scholarly field recordings and commercial records will be included so that researchers and the general public may more comprehensively explore expressive culture in the subcontinent.

Access to audio recordings is a prerequisite for research by musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and others in the humanities. Yet current library and archive collections in the United States, Europe, and South Asia are distinctly ill-equipped to provide scholars with early recordings in many of the languages and musical genres of South Asia. No collections on South Asia have systematically acquired discs and cylinders from the early era of audio recording and as a rule those recordings which are held are not well documented. Demand for these materials has increased dramatically as the result of fifty years of U.S. federal funding for study of "critical languages" and renewed attention in Europe to South Asia as an arena for scholarly engagement.

Musicological research provides an example of the increasing demand for early recordings. It is common for libraries to hold recent critical studies about early musicians of colonial India and yet not have a single original recording. Changes in taste of the South Asian listening public have meant that these musical works have not been reissued in modern form by South Asian recording companies. Many students now find it necessary to postpone their critical inquiry until they can consult recordings during research in South Asia.

This project will add digital copies of at least 890 field recordings (most from wax cylinders), 8,500 shellac discs, 750 photographic images, and 550 archival documents to the stock of research materials available freely via the Internet for non-commercial use. The audio files, field photographs, and archival documents will be prepared according to internationally accepted standards for preservation reformatting. All of the recordings included in the project will be cataloged fully. Bibliographic data will be accessible to scholars and librarians through the major bibliographic utilities and by connection to the Web-based South Asia Union Catalogue. The digital audio files will be archived following established international practices. The digitized recordings and documentary files will be accessible via the Digital South Asia Library Web site and the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv’s. This project will adhere to international copyright laws and act ethically with respect to the creators and their heirs of the works we handle.

Wax cylinders and the related field notes will be drawn from the renowned Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv collection. The recordings made by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Arnold Bake during the first four decades of the twentieth century will receive first attention given their pivotal importance for South Asian studies. Commercial gramophone recordings will come from collections owned by the University of Chicago and sister institutions in South Asia. A small number of shellac discs will also be digitized from archival collections in Great Britain.

The project guidelines for the selection of recordings have been developed to ensure that the resources chosen are diverse enough in musical genre and geographical origin to meet the needs of South Asia scholars from numerous disciplines. Project staff will implement the guidelines in selection of individual recordings for digitization. The Advisory Board will review those item-level decisions periodically throughout the project and suggest necessary adjustments.

The impact of this project will be most pronounced on the universities and colleges where instruction in the languages and music of South Asia takes place, as well as those institutions where graduates of such programs have positions. These scholars will be able to listen to recordings prior to research abroad and consequently have more time abroad for consulting unique resources. Users will also be able to return easily to a recording, a capability of fundamental importance in the humanities. As these recordings are also rare in South Asia, this project will benefit scholars there as well.

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage:Preservation and Access to Field and Commercial Audio

Recordings for Understanding Expressive Culture in the Subcontinent

An Application to

The National Endowment for the Humanities

and

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

By

The University of Chicago

and

Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin

Project Directors

James NyeBibliographer for Southern Asia

The University of Chicago Library

and

Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian KochLeiter der Abteilung

Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-ArchivEthnologisches Museum der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Table of Contents

A. Application Cover Sheet

B. Description of the Project and its Significance

C Narrative1. Introduction......................................................................................................12. Significance......................................................................................................13. History, Scope, and Duration...........................................................................54. Methodology and Standards.............................................................................75. Work Plan.......................................................................................................11

a. Tasks and Agents.....................................................................................11b. Schedule...................................................................................................12c. Evaluation................................................................................................12

6. Nature of Collaboration and Staff..................................................................137. Dissemination.................................................................................................15

D. History of Awards.......................................................................................................16

E. Consultants and Advisory Board Members.................................................................17

F. Budget1. NEH Budget2. DFG Budget3. NEH Subcontract Budget

G. Appendices1. Work Plan........................................................................................................182. Selection, Standards, Specimens, Equipment, and Data Archiving................203. Work to be Outsourced....................................................................................304. Brief Résumés for Key Staff...........................................................................325. Letters of Commitment....................................................................................46

1. IntroductionThe University of Chicago and the Ethnologisches Museum der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,

Abteilung für Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv (BPA) jointly propose a three-year collaborative project which will preserve, document, and make accessible a carefully selected body of the most significant early twentieth-century audio recordings from South Asia along with related documentation. This three-year collaborative project encompasses a wide chronological and geographical focus, including scholarly field recordings and commercial recordings made in the current South Asian nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Tibetan region of China, ranging from the earliest acoustic recordings made in 1898 through 1947, the date of independence in South Asia. The project will select recordings for digitization from all genres of music from collections currently held in Berlin, in Chicago, and by private collectors and sister institutions in South Asia. This project will adhere to international copyright laws and act ethically with respect to the creators and their heirs of the works we handle. The result will be the addition of digital copies of at least 890 field recordings (most from wax cylinders), 8,500 shellac discs, 750 photographic images, and 550 archival documents to the stock of research materials available freely via the Internet for non-commercial use. The audio files, field photographs, and archival documents will be prepared according to international standards for preservation reformatting and all of the recordings included in the project will be cataloged fully with the bibliographic data made accessible to scholars and librarians. The exchange of digital resources and expertise in digitization between Berlin, Chicago and colleagues in South Asia is central to the project.

This project addresses the significant lack of easily accessible early-era audio recordings from the South Asian subcontinent, which are a prerequisite for research by musicologists, anthropologists, historians, and many others in the humanities. It is common for libraries in the United States, Europe and South Asia to hold recent critical studies about early musicians of colonial India and yet not have a single original recording. The scholarly significance of these recordings as well as their importance to the preservation and study of South Asian recorded heritage ensures their wide usage by both the scholarly community and the general public.2. Significance

There are several compelling intellectual rationale for recovering South Asia recorded heritage. First, digitizing recordings from both field research and commercial record companies distinguishes the project from previous approaches. Historically, the ethnographic study of South Asian music has emphasized the collection of repertories and genres that supported constructs of authenticity, embedded either in the classical traditions or in the religious and regional exclusiveness of folk music. Such distinctions reflected both the colonial heritage of anthropological and ethnomusicological projects and the nation-building programs of South Asian societies. Commercial recording, in contrast, sought to create and disseminate expressive culture that would be consumed widely. Accordingly, commercial studios more readily recorded repertories and genres regardless of whether they affirmed constructs of authenticity. Stylistic hybridity, for example, in the recordings of music from popular theater and religious rituals reflected change along the shifting social and musical borders of a modern society. The historical distinctions between these two approaches to recording have precluded the study of the musical resources of the subcontinent from the perspective of hybridity. Even more than in most approaches to ethnomusicology, those working on classical, tribal, folk, popular, film, and religious musical traditions of South Asia rarely looked at the borders between traditions. Important scholarly studies produced a paradigm shift in the 1990s which was critical to a new ethnomusicology of India, but this new approach rarely has been extended to commercial audio recordings. Allowing scholars to explore the ways that field and commercial recordings overlapped will be a critical contribution of this project.

Second, the audio resources digitized and made available through this project will support new ways of understanding and disseminating expressive culture in South Asia. By looking at a continuum of links and connections rather than artificially constructed distinctions, this project will stimulate new ways of understanding the audio heritage of the subcontinent. It will preserve the ways in which field and commercial recordings overlap and intersect. This project will not separate "music as sound" from its

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wider expressive context. Dance, theater, religious devotion, poetry, and speech often converge in the recordings the project will preserve. Preserved together, they will become a critical resource for scholars from the many disciplines contributing to South Asian studies.

Third, by expanding common domains of expressive culture, the project hopes to encourage new methodological approaches for considering the relationship between national and global histories. Some of the recovered audio files from this joint DFG/NEH project will be included in a series of CD publications1 with accompanying analysis and interpretation. It is hoped that these publications will foster a reconsideration of the history of South Asian music similar to the recategorization which occurred in American music during the 1990s when the Smithsonian Institution published a collection CDs drawn from commercial recordings of "American folk music" from the 1950s2

Fourth, the project will create a model framework and infrastructure for future collaborations between repositories and institutions in South Asia, Europe, North America, and elsewhere. At the technical level, the collaboration will foster a better understanding of the best methods to preserve, digitize, document and disseminate the recorded heritage of South Asia. In addition, the existence of a framework will encourage and contribute to additional projects such as the recently funded University of Chicago proposal focusing upon recordings to improve advanced language pedagogy.

Most importantly, this project will promote and sustain a community of scholarship not only through the collaborative production of new digital resources but also through additional institutional collaboration, academic conferences and publications outside the immediate scope of the project. For example, the newly formed Center for Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago has joined with the BPA to participate in the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. The University of Chicago, led by faculty member Philip Bohlman, will also propose “Expressive Culture in South Asia” as the theme for the second bi-annual Hebrew University/University of Chicago Seminar on South Asia. Both institutions also hope to bring the materials produced by the project to the attention of a wider audience through publication of CDs by the BPA that will complement exposure given to the resources on the Internet at the Digital South Asia Library.

The Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project is also significant for its several products and the consequences of our approach. 1) The infrastructure created by this joint project will both result in the digitization of at least 9,000 important audio recordings as well as facilitating continuing, coordinated efforts to preserve the audio cultural patrimony of South Asia. Project participants will continue their exchange of expertise beyond the end of this project in such important areas as long-term preservation, metadata standards, and intellectual property issues. 2) The project's initiation of a union catalogue covering analog field and commercial recordings from the critical acoustic period and the early microphone era will permit researchers to discover what has been recorded in South Asia and in which collections the recordings are held.3 3) The project will foster a greater awareness of South Asia's large and influential audio heritage. That heritage is generally little-appreciated and under-protected even though it was an important force in the creation of modern consciousness in the region. 4) Early recordings will serve as a basis for revival of endangered performance traditions. 5) In South Asia, the project's engagement with colleagues will give impetus to a new audio archive movement, equipping younger archivists and librarians with the required tools and methods for musicological curatorship. Program staff will receive training on the job, expanding their expertise.

1 ?Expenses related to the production and distribution of these CDs will be borne by the BPA. No DFG or NEH funds will be used.2 ?Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian Folkways 40090/A 28746–A 28751.3 ?Documentation of gramophone record production in India is not well developed despite the pioneering efforts of a few enthusiasts such as Michael Kinnear and Suresh Chandvankar. Further, holdings of major repositories such as the British Library National Sound Archive are often uncataloged for lack of staff with appropriate language expertise.

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The CollectionsThis joint project will build upon the foundation laid by Professor Carl Stumpf of the Phonogram

Archive in Berlin for research on the world's traditional music where early field recordings by such luminaries as Erich Moritz von Hornbostel, Georg Schünemann, Robert Lachmann, Carl Meinhof, Felix von Luschan, and Richard Thurnwald have been collected. The BPA, often described as one of the most important ethnomusicological archives in the world, is part of Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Much of the traditional music held can only be found fragmentarily in the countries of origin. The collection was built by outfitting geographers, linguists, ethnographers, missionaries, and colonial officers with Edison phonographs and cylinders. The resulting recordings fueled rigorous musicological analysis and interpretation under the directorship of von Hornbostel in a comparative musicology program which came to be known as the "Berlin School". The Archive continues to document musical traditions throughout the world and now holds more than 150,000 musical recordings or more than 10,000 hours of audio-visual materials encompassing many world cultures. Recording media in the collection include Edison-phonogram cylinders,4 analog and digital tapes, and many types of discs -- from 78 rpm shellac discs to LPs and CDs. The sound recordings are often accompanied by transcription, photographs and other documentary evidence describing the people, musical instruments, cultural context, and technical details of the recordings. The international significance of the collection was recognized by UNESCO in 1999 when the cylinder recordings were listed in the Memory of the World Register.

The South Asia holdings at BPA are comprised of 120 collections, eighty-nine of which are from India. These collections consist mainly of audiovisual recordings made during field research as well as recordings from concerts in Berlin. These 120 collections include various recording media covering the gamut from wax cylinders (more than 500) to digital media. The chronological span represented by the recordings encompasses the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The collection continues to expand with the September 2008 acquisition of the former International Institute for Traditional Music5 in Berlin.

The Archive is renowned throughout the world for its techniques in preserving, restoring, and copying its holdings and for the facilities which support its mission. Beginning in 1907 the Archive produced copper galvanoplastic negatives, known as "galvanos" from its wax cylinder holdings and has used those galvanos to generate positive wax copies for the Archive, collectors, and other archives around the world. BPA is increasingly relied upon by museums, broadcast companies, and music lovers as a service center for the field of non-European music.

In 1998 the BPA began an ambitious publishing program aimed at making its valuable historical recordings more widely known and accessible. The Berlin Wax Cylinder project, a part of the larger program, has been financed by the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin to digitize about 7,000 cylinders and make them accessible on modern recording media.

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4 ?This Edison phonogram collection comprises slightly more than 30,000 cylinders -- 2,747 original wax cylinders, 14,000 negative copper galvanos, and 13,667 positive copies.5 ?The International Institute for Traditional Music was founded in 1963 by Yehudi Menuhin and Alain Danielou. Danielou, in his time one of the world's most important researchers on Indian music, made research on non-western musical cultures the institute's main focus. For over thirty years, the Institute organized concerts and produced numerous publications including the well-known UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World series and the internationally renowned journal The World of Music. A huge collection comprised mainly of audio recordings, photographs and videos was accumulated prior to the Institute's closure in 1996. That collection is now housed at the BPA.

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The University of Chicago is home to top-rated programs in musicology6 and South Asian studies as well as many other distinguished humanities programs. Those programs are supported by extensive and historically rich library and archival collections.7

The Library's century-long commitment to South Asia has produced a collection worthy of the University's role as a leader in international scholarship. The South Asia collection, described at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/, has the further advantage of being part of one of America's finest research libraries. The Library's leadership in South Asian studies can be measured in its ambitious collection program, abundant services to readers, strength of staff, efficient provision of inter-library loans, and imaginative projects to further scholarship.

The Library's commitment to South Asia is part of a wider dedication to area studies at the University of Chicago. Together with its South Asia holdings, the collection of materials on Southeast Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East amount to more than 3,240,000 volumes and comprise one of the world's great resources for area studies. These collections and their support by faculty and staff allow cross-cultural and cross-regional scholarship on topics such as Islamic studies, where the sources and issues cut across all of Asia as well as other regions.

The Library supports scholarship on virtually all topics related to South Asia through an ambitious program of collecting contemporary materials that complement the foundation of a century of collection development. More than 664,090 volumes comprise the South Asia collection. There are 412,163 volumes of books and 251,927 volumes of serials in more than thirty languages of the South Asian subcontinent. The Library also holds more than 11,200 sheet maps and a vast array of photographs, and posters, and since 1959 has been the most comprehensive participant in the Library of Congress' overseas programs for acquisition of audio and video recordings on South Asia. The University of Chicago is the only academic library in the U.S. to collect in all languages of the region. The collection is widely regarded as the most comprehensive university library collection of South Asia materials in North America.

Since 1994 the Southern Asia Department has purchased private collections in South Asia and retained the collections in country for development in collaboration with South Asian partner institutions.8

The India collections are in Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, and Kolkata while others are located in Karachi, Pakistan and Kathmandu, Nepal. Two such collections of audio recordings are described in Section 3 below. Additional, strong partnerships link Chicago with libraries, archives, and academic institutions in the subcontinent, England, and Japan. Examples include the Archive and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, the Society of Indian Record Collectors, and EMI Archive in London.

Extensive services are provided to readers and institutions beyond the University. In addition, requests to explore the collection from scholars from across America and throughout the world are routinely accommodated.

6 ?Ethnomusicology at the University is located within the Department of Music and is academically linked with the Department of Anthropology following the tradition of interdisciplinary collaboration which permeates the institution.7 ?Noteworthy examples pertinent to this proposal include the Chicago Jazz Archive, the Wieboldt-Rosenwald Collection of German Folksongs, and the Language Archive.8 ?The principal reason for this approach is that the finest collections are often held by private collectors. This is true for audio recordings just as it is for ink print publications. Prior to our purchases the private collections were often inaccessible to scholars or accessible only after payments of exorbitant fees. It would be inappropriate to remove the collections to Chicago given their cultural significance in the South Asian countries.

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Probable audiencesThis project will be of benefit to scholars, appreciators of South Asian music, and to members of the

general public. Scholars and a wide variety of others will be interested in the project's outcomes because they will have access to audio recordings many of which were previously inaccessible. As noted elsewhere in this proposal, scholars will have new resources for exploring expressive culture in South Asia. Further, the cost-free availability of these recordings in a high quality digital format will allow contemporary composers and musicians to manipulate, sample or incorporate these earlier recordings into their own compositions. The recordings will also be a new corpus for contemporary musicians, dancers, theater troupes and others to draw from in staging new artistic performances. Additionally, the recordings will aid tribal communities and other traditional performing communities in South Asia to maintain their heritage.

Project staff will take several steps during the project to expand awareness of the digital recordings. They will place articles and notices in scholarly journals, newsletters, and listservs. Musicians, other performers, and the general public in South Asia will be targeted through the placement of articles and notices in newspapers, magazines, and other forms of media. Efforts will be made to collaborate and share digital files with governmental bodies (such as Sangeet Natak Akademi in India), non-governmental organizations (such as those working with tribal communities in South Asia), and community and cultural organizations both in the subcontinent and internationally.3. History, Scope, and Duration

Following World War II the vast majority of the Phonogram Archive's cylinder collection was located in the Russian sector while the corresponding documentation was in West Germany. The collection was effectively inaccessible until Germany's reunification. In the 1990s, soon after the cylinder collection was returned to the Ethnological Museum, the BPA began transferring the holdings from analog to digital resources for preservation purposes. Several research projects considered how best to make the historical cylinder collections accessible with modern technology. The historical collections were catalogued and approximately half of the cylinder collections were digitized with funding from the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The BPA also initiated the Historical Sound Documents series of CDs that publishes sound recordings along with extensive field notes. Project ILKAR, a new program that runs from 2008 to 2011, supports research on the preservation of cylinders and tape recordings and their long-term storage. These ILKAR activities are providing the BPA with the necessary expertise and equipment to carry out digitization under the Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project.

From 2006-2008, the Berlin Archive participated in two digital library projects (DISMARC and ethnoArc) to improve access to the BPA collections. The BPA led the activities related to metadata for both of those projects. A metadata scheme and a union catalogue for music archives were among the project outcomes. Additionally, project staff created an export mechanism for BPA's local collection database and addressed intellectual property rights (IPR) issues related to the presentation of resources on the Internet. These previous projects created a foundation of knowledge and expertise upon which the BPA will build in carrying out metadata work for the proposed DFG/NEH project.

The University of Chicago has laid the groundwork for this proposed project through several recent and continuing programs, projects, and activities. The University's Library hosts the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)9 which contains a widely adopted and expanding set of Internet resources with a special emphasis on reference materials. DSAL will host the recordings and other resources created under this project and make them accessible via the Internet in a fashion similar to the approach under creation in

9 ?A public resource since its founding in 1999 in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries, DSAL is located at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ are organized under the following headings: Reference Resources, Bibliographies and Union Lists, Images, Indexes, Maps, Books and Journals, Statistics. Audio and Video will soon be added to these. Uses of the DSAL Web site have routinely exceeded 2,200,000 per month over the past half year. Readers from virtually every country in the world have visited the site.

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presenting the audio files from the Linguistic Survey of India.10 The South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC)11 is one of the most recent additions to DSAL resources. SAUC will host the discographic information from the Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project.

In 2004 the University of Chicago Library purchased a private collection of extremely rare 78 rpm recordings from Mr. V Sundaram with support from the University's Library Society. The shellac discs, in excellent condition, dated between 1921 and 1950, include classical music, folk music, comic music, political speeches and drama sets. Examples of recordings include works of the revered female vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi and early recordings of percussion pieces on the rathi tavil, an instrument with ancient origins used in temple processions. Drama sets constitute a category of particular importance and are accompanied by printed text of the plays and songbooks that provide essential aural details on dialect, thespian style, and early practices of singing dialog in the theater, all of which informs the development of Indian cinema. There are also political speeches by luminaries of the Indian Congress and recordings addressing social issues of the day such as alcoholism and the needs of the untouchables.

The Roja Muthiah Research Library, our sister institution in Chennai, India, is in the last stages of negotiations for purchase of the V.A.K. Ranga Rao collection which consists of more than 34,500 gramophone records of music, drama, and speeches in at least forty Indian languages and dialects and many foreign languages. That collection will be available for digitization under this project.

Finally, Dr. Suresh Chandvankar's Endangered Archives Programme project titled "Digitising Archival Material Pertaining to 'Young India' Label Gramophone Records" is an important resource which will be associated with this project. Dr. Chandvankar is the Secretary of the Society of Indian Record Collectors, a body founded in 1990 to bring together music lovers and freely disseminate information about early recordings from India, the artists, and the care and preservation of old discs. The Society publishes The Record News, a quarterly journal.Scope

The extent of materials which will be considered for selection under this project is concisely defined as including:

the geographical area encompassed by the current South Asian nation-states of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Tibetan region of China;

the chronological period from the earliest acoustic recordings made in the subcontinent in 1898 through 1947, the date of independence in South Asia;

the entire range of carrier media for recorded sound created during the chronological period but with special attention to wax cylinders and shellac records;

all genres of musical content, broadly construed; andrecordings of music held in Berlin, in Chicago, and by private collectors and sister institutions in

South Asia.Within this broad definition of scope, the project will be constrained only by rigorous adherence to

intellectual property laws. Preference will be given in selection to the oldest recordings.

10 ?Please see the description in Appendix 2 along with a screen shot from a functioning prototype site at https://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/drupal_test/lsi/LSI/5702AK.11 ?The South Asia Union Catalogue is a cap-stone program gathering existing bibliographic records and combining them with new cataloguing created under current projects to create a definitive statement on publishing in the South Asian subcontinent. SAUC intends to become an historical bibliography comprehensively describing books and periodicals published in South Asia from 1556 through the present. In addition, it will become a union catalogue in which libraries throughout the world owning copies of those imprints will register their holdings. SAUC is in the early stages of creation with funding from the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The program will soon be expanded to encompass audio, cartographic, and video resources.

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DurationThis project will yield results throughout the three-year duration of funding and beyond. The

description here is principally of plans for sustaining the project, maintaining and updating the resources, and broadening efforts to recover South Asia recorded heritage. The most important bases of support are the two institutions making this application. The BPA enjoys strong support from the German government and the University of Chicago has liberally supported its programs in ethnomusicology, South Asian studies, and the Library. That support will enable the continuing production of CDs in the Historical Sound Documents series12 from BPA. The publication of at least one volume in the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series13 will be possible, as noted in more detail elsewhere in this proposal, through a subvention from several units on the University campus. The Library in Chicago has demonstrated its commitment to the Digital South Asia Library through generous support for data archiving and staff support to maintain the Web servers over the past decade. That support will continue into the distant future, in part, because DSAL has become an important international resource. The addition of several thousand digital audio recordings to the site will further increase the importance of DSAL and increase traffic to the site well beyond the already significant current monthly levels exceeding two million visits. The South Asia Union Catalogue program will use cash credits generated from loading unique records to the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) database to support the creation of additional records in South Asia, Berlin, and Chicago after the project is concluded and to complete that cataloguing to the high standards and full levels which have characterized the South Asia Union Catalogue program. Finally, the University of Chicago has just been awarded a four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education. A segment of that new project will permit Chicago to digitize more than 9,800 gramophone records containing speeches, drama, and other recording of value for advanced language pedagogy.

After the end of the funded phase, Chicago and BPA will continue to work together to further develop the music collections of South Asian as part of the DSAL on the basis of the infrastructure established in the project. Several infrastructural building blocks will be created by the proposed project such as an exchange routine for metadata and digital objects, additionally IPR issues specific to the exchange of material between the Germany and the US will be addressed. Thus, it will be possible to continue work with regular staff in Berlin and Chicago as digitization and acquisition of material continues.

Two intellectual projects will sustain the collaborative engagement between Berlin and Chicago. First, the Division of the Humanities established a new Center for Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago in 2009. With ongoing collaboration between Lars-Christian Koch and Philip V. Bohlman at the University of Chicago (a three-year Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Trans-Atlantic Cooperation Grant), the Chicago Center for Ethnomusicology has joined with the expansion of the Berlin Phonogram Archive in the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. Second, the Project Co-Directors and Philip Bohlman will propose "Expressive Culture in South Asia" as the theme for the second bi-annual Hebrew University/University of Chicago Seminar on South Asia. If approved, the seminar would be held in 2012. The recordings and other documentation created under this project would serve as an excellent resource for seminar participants.4. Methodology and Standards

Project work will be coordinated from locations in Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai (formerly Madras). All project participants are committed to follow the methods and standards described in this section. Throughout the three years of funding project staff will monitor the bodies which set relevant standards and implement changes to practices as necessary.

12 ?One thousand CDs are produced of each title in the series. Sales for each title are usually in the range of 50 to 100 per year. Prices are calculated to recover costs but not to make a profit for the BPA.13 ?Print-runs for Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology are initially about 1,000. Royalties from sales are divided evenly among the principal authors or editors. Almost all volumes are published in paperback and priced less than $30.00 for a book with accompanying CD.

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The methods to be used under this proposed project have been created and refined over more than a decade at the Berlin Archive and the University of Chicago. Successfully completed projects which laid the foundation for this collaborative engagement between Berlin and Chicago are described in the History of Awards section and elsewhere in this narrative. Many of Chicago's previous initiatives have been implemented in collaboration with colleagues in South Asia. South Asian librarians and archivists often exhibit a passion for documenting and caring for their cultural patrimony and are able to combine that passion with deep knowledge of local languages. This combination of interest and expertise has added to project success.

This project will follow the DFG Practical Guidelines on Cultural Heritage and recommendations of the Digital Library Federation as a general framework for digitization and preservation as well as the more specialized guidelines established by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) for audio documents which are not covered by the DFG guidelines.14

Preparation and Processing of MaterialThe Project Directors have established guidelines for the selection of recordings to ensure that the

digitized resources are diverse enough in genre and geographical origin to meet the needs of South Asia scholars from numerous disciplines. Project staff will implement the guidelines in selection of individual recordings for digitization. The Advisory Board will review those item-level decisions periodically throughout the project and comment on necessary adjustments. The Board will also oversee the selections in terms of IPR and ethical treatment of composers and performing artists. Selection decisions will encompass audio recordings as well as documents and photographs accompanying field recordings. Please see the selection guidelines in Appendix 2.

Preparation for digitization will differ based on the media and the location of work. In Berlin, wax cylinders will receive visual examination and, when there is more than one copy available, the copies will be physically collocated. Audio tape will be examined to determine if there has been any physical degradation.15 The project ethnomusicologist in Berlin will organize field notes, photographs, and other documents which have recently been acquired and not yet fully integrated into the BPA archive. In Chennai, cleaning shellac discs will be the principal preparatory activity. Project staff will use the record cleaning equipment recommended by the National Sound Archive at the British Library. (Please see Appendix 2 for details on the equipment.)

Audio transfer from analog to digital will be executed in Berlin and in Chennai. Signal retrieval from original carriers will be carried out using high quality playback machines that match the speed and format of the original recording and that are properly cleaned and aligned. The BPA already owns appropriate equipment which was acquired through other projects such as ILKAR. Equipment for Chennai will be purchased following specifications prepared for the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme by the National Sound Archive in London. Additionally, the team in Chennai will use an optical scanner developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The transfer from analog to digital will take place using professional hardware as specified in IASA TC-04. To ensure a high quality standard, Albrecht Wiedmann, the chief sound technician at the Berlin Archive will train staff in Chennai and periodically assess the quality of work in India.

Digital audio files will be stored unprocessed and without data reduction using the broadcasting wave (EBU tech 3285), preferably, or alternatively the wave format with a preferred resolution of 192 kHz/24 bit and minimal resolution of 96 kHz/24 bit. Material that has been digitized in the past will be re-evaluated. If a considerable increase in quality is expected it will be digitized again, otherwise older

14 ?The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (TC-03), December 2005 and Kevin Bradley, Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies TC-04: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (2nd ed.) 2009.15 ?In Berlin, preparatory steps for cylinders and tapes will be covered by the ILKAR project, described elsewhere in this proposal.

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digital masters will be preserved in the current resolution. Most notably, some shellac recordings were digitized in Berlin in the late 1990s with resolution of 48 kHz/16 bit. MD5 will be employed to check the integrity of files. The digital audio files will be converted to a compressed format, most likely MP3, for convenient access via the project's Web site. WAV files will also be made available for scholars who need high quality audio for their research.

Project staff in Berlin and Chennai will digitize documentary information related to audio recordings. They will use flat-bed scanners and high resolution digital cameras already held by the BPA and the Roja Muthiah Research Library. Quality control will be applied to ensure that the following high standards are met. Images will be scanned at a resolution of 300-600 dpi, depending upon the source, and stored in 24 bit TIFF or lossless JPEG2000 file formats. Scanned texts will be stored as image and as full-text in Unicode if recognized by OCR software.16 In important cases, translations or transliterations from handwritten texts will be provided in accordance with recommendations of the Advisory Board.

The project's high quality metadata will permit users to locate the project's digital resources efficiently and precisely. The project ethnomusicologist in Berlin will augment existing digital metadata describing the BPA's South Asia holdings which have been selected for digitization. The existing metadata is often only available for the collection level and not for sub-units or individual documents. This documentation of holdings will continue the metadata creation begun under DISMARC and ethnoArc, two previous digital library projects co-funded by the European Union. BPA metadata for commercial recordings will be converted to MARC21 format and metadata for field recordings will be converted to Encoded Archival Description format for exchange with Chicago and presentation on the project Web site. The descriptive records will include technical information about the digital files including a description of the original carrier, its format and state of preservation, and the equipment required to replay the original media.

Professional cataloguers in Chennai will create full bibliographic and related authority records for each of the 78 rpm gramophone records digitized under NEH funding. All records will be reviewed by staff to ensure that high standards are met. Specifically, the standards are those of Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second revised edition, and the Library of Congress Rule interpretations. (Program staff are well qualified to meet these standards and will receive additional training from the Library of Congress and the University of Chicago Library.) All records will be created using digital images of record labels as the chief source of information with supplementary information coming from catalogues produced by the record companies and, occasionally, from consultation of archives held by record manufacturers. Cataloguers with special training in authority control will collect information on personal names and titles to create authority records if records do not already exist. These new name and uniform title authority records will contain the established entry along with dates of birth and death or period when the person flourished, if known; cross-references; notes on sources consulted in establishing the standard form and its cross-references; and other necessary information. The cataloguers will draw upon information in provisional authority records available at the BPA and collaborate with colleagues at the BPA in completing the German data. As with bibliographic records, the authority records created for the South Asia Union Catalogue will contain parallel fields (880) for alternate graphic representation of non-roman scripts. South Asia scholars have often called for the addition of cataloguing data in the scripts used in the publications and recordings, arguing that it is easier to read catalogue data in the original characters than in romanization. (Appendix 2 contains sample records including 880 fields in Perso-Arabic characters.)

Project staff will disseminate metadata from the BPA and Chennai via the South Asia Union Catalogue. Further, during the second year of the project staff will begin loading the full electronic catalogue records to OCLC. Those bibliographic data will also be made available to European and South Asian national databases and individual libraries. Archival metadata from BPA will also be disseminated

16 ?The Digital Library Federation's Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials is available at http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm.

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to Europeana at regular intervals using an established export routine based on Open Archive Initiative (OAI) technologies.

Organization of and Access to MaterialThe Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)17 will host the project Web site, maintain the digital audio

files and related documentation from field recordings with persistent URIs, and deliver the resources to users. The South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC)18 will deliver the project's metadata to users. (Please see specimen entries in Appendix 2.) Both DSAL and SAUC are maintained by the University of Chicago. Technical information about DSAL and detailed statements on the standards to which DSAL adheres are enumerated at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/techinfo.html. These include standards for archiving and preservation, Dublin Core, PURL, Unicode, XHTML, and compliance with the Web Accessibility Initiative standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. SAUC utilizes software fully compliant with the Z39.50 protocol. The SAUC system permits users to search and retrieve bibliographic information in Unicode encoding from its Internet server. Additionally, Berlin materials will be referenced from Europeana and other cultural heritage portals such as BAM (http://www.bam-portal.de).

This project will adhere to intellectual property rights and copyright laws and act ethically with respect to the composers, artists, and their heirs of the works we handle. This commitment has roots in solid traditions of ethical behavior by the BPA and Chicago in building and maintaining collections in collaboration with colleagues in South Asia. The implications of this commitment in Berlin will be shaped by the fact that the BPA’s collection consists primarily of unpublished collections of sound recording and supporting documentation. In contrast, the collection to be treated by the University of Chicago and colleagues in South Asia consists of commercially released gramophone records.19 But, common to our work under DFG and NEH funding will be the principle enunciated by Prof. Anthony Seeger. “Our ethical treatment of the artists and the communities from which they have come must be of primary importance in our positions on intellectual property, decisions about preservation, and strategies for institutions survival.”20 We will be alert to the responsibilities attendant upon our “position of arbiter between the traditional ideas of ownership, restrictions of the donor, and current copyright law.”21 In recognition of the fact that mere possession of recordings is not grounds for unrestricted use, we will “[collaborate] with the communities from which their collections originate as well as those they serve”

17 ?The URL for DSAL is http://dsal.uchicago.edu/.18 ?The Web site for SAUC is at http://sauc.uchicago.edu/.19 ?Copyright on the commercial gramophone records within scope for this project, all of which were published in colonial India prior to 1947, has expired and the recordings are in the public domain even though copyright may still subsist in the musical compositions. The basis for this understanding regarding recordings is that Section 4 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1914 states that audio recordings were protected by copyright for ten years following publication. The 1914 Act remained in force until it was repealed and superseded by the Indian Copyright Act, 1957, enacted in January 1958, and in Pakistan with The Copyright Ordinance, 1962, Ordinance No. XXXIV of 1962. This means that records published through 1947, ten years before enactment of the 1957 Act in India and the 1962 Act in Pakistan, are in the public domain. This understanding is also consistent with common understandings of the impact the 1996 Uruguay Round Agreements Act of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has had on intellectual property protection in the U.S.20 ?Anthony Seeger, “Rights Management: Intellectual Property and Audiovisual Archives and Collections,” in Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis, CLIR Reports (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001), http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/rights.html (accessed September 12, 2009).21 ?ibid.

and will “operate in a legal manner.”22 We also recognize that copyright may subsist separately in compositions and the recording of those compositions. This potential for dual copyright can complicate attempts to understand the current status of a work or recording and the meaning of fair use with respect to those recordings. The project has engaged Prof. Seeger, a highly regarded leader in ethnomusicology archives and a recognized authority on rights management, to assess the project’s performance relative to copyright and ethical standards. As an example of repatriation, we will take every step possible to inform descendants of arrangements we have made for digital preservation of recordings and will offer copies of those recordings on appropriate media to those who have inadequate access to the Internet. In these repatriation efforts we will collaborate with the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology in India.

Storage, Maintenance, and Protection of DataStorage of digital objects and the corresponding metadata will be on professional mass storage

systems in Chicago, Berlin and to a limited extent also in Chennai where files will be stored only temporarily. Digital objects will be stored in high quality and open formats (WAV, TIFF, XML, and so forth) as described above. Likewise, the metadata produced by the project will be stored in formats following such standards as MARC21 and EAD to guarantee their long-term usability. Further, the data from Chicago and the Berlin Archive will be shared with each other and stored on each other’s systems which will provide additional protection through redundancy.

The DSAL plan for maintenance of data includes the following procedures to ensure the integrity of the storage media: periodic checks of completeness and functionality of the media; periodic refreshing and/or copying the resources in order to guard against the degradation of media; migration to new media or new formats; saving files in their primary format; and preserving the technology used in the creation/storage of the files.

The University of Chicago Library Digital Repository will be responsible for data archiving to ensure the long-term preservation of the digital objects and metadata created under this DFG/NEH project. Standards deployed for archiving the digital resources created by this project follow what are becoming standard practices for libraries and archives. Additionally, the professional staff working for the Digital Repository constantly monitor developments in best practices and make appropriate adjustments to local practices. It is noteworthy that the University of Chicago Library is an active member of the Digital Library Federation, a body which is in the forefront of research and establishment of standards for maintenance of data and data archiving. The Ethnological Museum in Berlin will also archive the full set of the project’s digital resources on its data storage system. Please see Appendix 2 for more information from the University of Chicago Library's Digital Repository mission statement.5. Work Plan5a. Tasks and Agents

The University of Chicago, a principal participant in the Digital South Asia Library, will be the administrative home for the project's work on early commercial gramophone records. Staff in Chicago will purchase hardware and software and deliver the equipment to Chennai; design the project Web resources in collaboration with colleagues in Berlin and create the site on DSAL; collect digital assets from Chennai and Berlin each quarter and integrate those digital audio files and related graphic materials on the DSAL server; collect bibliographic records and archival metadata from Chennai and Berlin and add those records to the South Asia Union Catalog (SAUC); and ensure that mechanisms for data storage and archiving are functioning properly.

The Phonogram Archive in Berlin will be responsible for project activities related to field recordings. Staff will create metadata mapping for export of legacy data to MARC21 and EAD formats; assess the condition of wax cylinder recordings, galvanos, shellac discs, and audio tapes prior to transferring the audio from analog to digital; digitize associated field notes, photographs, and other

22 ?International Council of Museums Code of Ethics for Museums, 2006, sections 6 and 7 respectively, http://icom.museum/ethics.html (accessed September 20, 2009).

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related resources; perfect the documentation of the BPA's South Asian holdings; and both deliver new digital resources to Chicago and collect from Chicago the digital objects created in Chennai. The chief sound technician at the BPA will train staff in Chennai. Using its own resources, BPA will create CDs for its series of historical recordings from selected recordings digitized under this project.

The Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) in Chennai will be the main operational base for cataloguing the audio recordings, preparing electronic records for an historical discography, and transferring the analog recordings on selected discs to digital format. RMRL's collection of gramophone records will receive an assessment for conservation needs. Subsequently, the recordings will be converted to digital audio files in the WAV format and copies for general use generated in MP3 format. Graphic material on the record sleeves will be captured as digital images. Any pamphlets included in boxed editions will be scanned. The digital recordings and bibliographic data will be delivered to Chicago each quarter. Throughout its work RMRL staff will review all products for quality.5b. Schedule

The following Gantt chart offers a synoptic view of project activities. Please consult the detailed work plan and schedule of project activities in Appendix 1 for a more comprehensive statement on tasks, agents, and their deployment.

5c. EvaluationA key aspect of our program review is that evaluation is integral to the design of the project itself.

Evaluation will not simply be external and focused on project results. Rather, it will be internal as well, expected to generate programmatic changes if necessary, and to note shortcomings. Every half year the project co-directors will meet with staff to assess performance measures such as the use of grant funds, work performed, the results of project activities, outcomes of the activities, and the impact of the project on those who use the resources created. These reviews will result in adjustments, as necessary, to the project's procedures and practices. They will also be linked to semi-annual performance reports.

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In addition we will engage three external reviewers to evaluate the project's efficacy. We will invite Anthony Seeger, Professor, Ethnomusicology and Director, Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles, to assess the project at the end of the second year and Wolfgang Bender, Director, Director, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim (previously Director, African Music Archive, University of Mainz) and Rudolf Brandl, Director, Phonogrammarchiv Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, at the conclusion of the three-year project. Each will be charged with assessment of qualitative and quantitative data assembled during the semi-annual internal evaluations. They will address the project's success in producing promised products; our adherence to best practices regarding copyright and ethical treatment of composers, performing artists, and their heirs; the impact of the project; and make recommendations for future collaborative activities by BPA and Chicago.6. Nature of Collaboration and Staff

The Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project builds upon the long-standing commitment of both the Berliner-Phonogramm Archiv (BPA) and the University of Chicago to South Asian studies. Both have long-established relationships with institutions in South Asia and elsewhere that will help to achieve the project's goals. The collaboration envisioned by the project will allow both institutions to accomplish more than they might have separately. For example, the University of Chicago will avail itself of its close ties to the Library of Congress to arrange for consultation with BPA experts and training for technicians at institutions in South Asia that will contribute recordings and metadata to the project. In this particular case, the BPA will provide technical expertise and experience that complements the collections held by the University of Chicago at sister institutions in South Asia such as the Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) in Chennai. Through its connections with the South Asia Union Catalogue and the Digital South Asia Library the University of Chicago will reciprocate by helping the BPA to improve and more widely disseminate information about its existing collection of recordings from South Asia. Both institutions will also continue to expand their existing collections in ways that contribute to the project as demonstrated by the BPA's September 2008 acquisition of the former International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin and University of Chicago's involvement in the purchase of private music collections and the submission of grant proposals complementary to this one.

The collaboration will not, however, be limited to the preservation, production and dissemination of digital recordings and the accompanying metadata. Both institutions share a commitment to encourage scholarship that will benefit from the resources created by the project through additional institutional collaboration, academic conferences and publication. In particular, the University of Chicago's newly formed Center for Ethnomusicology will join with the expansion of the BPA in the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. Furthermore, the project's co-directors and University of Chicago faculty member Philip Bohlman will propose “Expressive Culture in South Asia” as the theme for the second bi-annual Hebrew University/University of Chicago Seminar on South Asia. Beyond academia, both institutions hope to bring the materials produced by the project to the attention of wider audience. The BPA will publish a series of CDs with historical recordings that will hopefully complement the exposure given to the resources on the Internet at the Digital South Asia Library in Chicago.

Following are succinct statements on the project's principal staff, their duties, qualifications, and the amount of their time which will be committed to the project. Curricula vitae for project staff are attached as Appendix 4. The vitae substantiate the qualifications of each staff member to undertake the duties described below. The Advisory Board is also described with more details included in the section titled “Consultants and Advisory Board Members” below.

In the United StatesProject Co-Director. James Nye, Bibliographer for Southern Asia at the University of Chicago, will

direct the project in the United States and South Asia. He will hold general administrative and fiscal responsibility, co-organize and co-chair meetings of the program's Advisory Board, supervise the staff employed in Chicago, notify scholars, archives, and libraries about the project, and work with the Project Director in Germany. Nye has been the Bibliographer for Southern Asia at the University

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since 1984. The University of Chicago Library will contribute 15% of his time for three years for work as project director.

Project Manager. Samip Mallick, Project Manager for the Digital South Asia Library, will coordinate the project's activities in Chicago and in India. He will be responsible for general fiscal oversight of this project. He will also collaborate with colleagues at the BPA in designing the project Web resources and creating the site on DSAL. Mallick will be engaged for .15 FTE under the NEH grant.

In GermanyProject Co-Director. Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian Koch, Leiter der Abteilung, Musikethnologie, Medien-

Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, will direct the project in Germany. He will hold general administrative and fiscal responsibility, coordinate activities in Germany (including outreach activities), co-organize and co-chair meetings of the program's Advisory Board, supervise the staff employed in Berlin, and guide the production of CDs in the BPA series with resources created under this project. Prof. Koch has been Director for the BPA since 2003. The BPA will contribute 15% of his time for three years for work as project director.

Chief Sound Technician/Ethnomusicologist. Albrecht Wiedmann, M.A. in ethnomusicology and training as sound technician, employed at BPA since 2005 will train staff in Chennai and supervise project digitization in Chicago and Berlin. The BPA will contribute 5% of his time for three years.

Scientific Assistant. Maurice Mengel, M.A. in ethnomusicology, led the BPA's metadata initiatives in former projects and will supervise metadata activities in the proposed project. The BPA will contribute 5% of his time for three years.

Ethnomusicologist. The BPA will hire an ethnomusicology with a regional specialization in South Asia to select items from the BPA’s collections which are in scope for the project, map metadata from the BPA’s internal format to the standards used in Chicago, revise new metadata created by the Sound Technician, prepare authority files, and conduct post-processing of the digital objects. The ethnomusicologist will be engaged for .66 FTE under the DFG grant.

Sound Technician/Cataloguer. The BPA will hire a project staff member to perform digitization (transfer from analog to digital) for various media (cylinders, shellac, texts, photos), create metadata at the item level, and conduct post-processing of the digital objects. The Audio Technician will be engaged for .5 FTE under the DFG grant.

In South AsiaDirector of South Asian Operations. Sundar Ganesan, Director of the Roja Muthiah Research Library,

Chennai, India, will have responsibility for project activities in South Asia, supervising staff employed for this purpose at the Roja Muthiah Research Library and overseeing the selection of recordings for treatment. He will also have responsibility for maintaining the working relationship with other libraries and private collections involved in the project. Ten percent of his time will be committed to this work during the duration of the project.

Head of Cataloguing. R. Prakash, Assistant Director and Head of Documentation at the Roja Muthiah Research Library, will lead the team responsible for cataloguing the physical gramophone records acquired from V.A.K. Ranga Rao and the digital copies produced from those records. His team will create records for the recordings and associated name authority records in MARC21 format and distribute those records to Chicago each quarter. Fifteen percent of his time will be committed to this work during the three years of the project.

Head of Digitization. V. Kumar, Technical Officer for Digitization at the Roja Muthiah Research Library, will lead the team digitizing gramophone records and scanning related resources such as the record labels. He will also be responsible for quality control related to the digitization activities and will supervise the quarterly transfer of resources from Chennai to Chicago. Fifteen percent of his time will be committed to this work throughout the project.

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An Advisory Board for this joint project will be appointed in June 2010. Members, from institutions in Europe, the United States, and South Asia who will be asked to participate include: Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Rabindra Bharati University; Suresh S. Chandvankar, Society of Indian Record Collectors, Mumbai; Pekka Gronow, University of Helsinki; Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Institute for Museum Research, National Museums in Berlin; Daniel M. Neuman, University of California, Los Angeles; and Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, University of Alberta. Additionally, Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, will serve as a special advisor to the project. Please see Consultants and Advisory Board Members for more details.7. Dissemination

The Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project will disseminate its digital assets as free resources via a Web site associated with the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL), the South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC), and the Phonogram Archive site. Use of the Internet as the principal means of dissemination is appropriate given the increasing centrality of the World Wide Web as a source of scholarly resources. It is additionally beneficial that DSAL and SAUC will be used as the vehicles for dissemination since scholars and citizens alike have come to rely on these sites as providers of accurate and useful reference resources related to South Asia. At present, DSAL receives more than 2,200,000 visits per month. This project will allow DSAL to expand its base of digital objects and further its mission of supporting scholarship.

The following resources will be made available: 1) Metadata in the forms of bibliographic, authority, and archival records will be available on SAUC, OCLC, and spk-digital, a BPA-affiliated Web resource currently under construction. Those records will also be offered to other libraries around the world. The carefully created metadata will permit users to locate the digital audio and other digital objects created under this project. 2) Digital audio in MP3 and WAV formats will be distributed through DSAL and the BPA. CDs containing selected audio recordings will be available from BPA. Scholars who need high quality WAV versions of the audio files for their research will need to complete a simple registration form with an agreement which has been deactivated during the period of proposal review by NEH and DFG.23 Strict adherence to international and relevant national copyright law and ethical treatment of composers, recording artists, and their heirs will be a base principle governing our release of digital recordings for public use. 3) Transcripts of selected recordings will be available via the project Web site and from the BPA. 4) High resolution scans of field notes and photographs will be distributed via the BPA site and DSAL. We may also deliver gramophone record labels and covers from selected commercial recordings.

Separate funding from the University of Chicago and the Berlin Archive will allow us to produce and distribute at least one monograph in the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series and CDs published by BPA.

Finally, we plan to seek separate funds for a travelling public exhibition on wax cylinders and shellac recordings, their conservation and restoration. The intention is that this exhibition would be displayed in India, Germany, and the United States. It would draw upon our experience in conducting this project and the digital objects we will have created.

23 ?Please see https://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/drupal_test/lsi/LSI/5702AK for a demonstration Web site and a page image from that site in Appendix 2 under the heading “4) Screen shot of Digital South Asia Library Web page.”

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History of Awards

Berliner Phonogramm-ArchivSince the 1990s, the BPA has carried three projects to ensure the preservation of its historical

recordings and to provide better accessibility to the collections. SpuBiTo ("Spur Bild Ton", 1996-1999) and the wax cylinder project (1998-2003) were funded by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The projects resulted in optical processing of cylinder negatives, comprehensive documentation of the cylinder collections, publication of a catalogue of the cylinder collections (Ziegler 2006), development of a method to reproduce positives from cylinder negatives by creating new positives, and transfer of approximately half of the BPA cylinders. The grant equaled approximately 450,000 €. In cooperation with the Ratghen research laboratory in Berlin, ILKAR (2008-2011) researches new methods for the recognition, avoidance, and mitigation of typical age- and material-related deterioration of cylinder and tape recordings. Of the total 280,900 € grant the BPA will receive approximately half.

Since 2006, BPA participated in three digital library projects funded by the European Commission that aimed to improve accessibility by integrating the archive into larger information networks. EthnoArc (Linked European Archives for Ethnomusicological Research), focused on the creation of tools for archives and professional archivists that allow users to query differently structured metadata repositories (www.ethnoArc.org). The overall budget was 985,231 € of which BPA received 96,000 €. DISMARC (DIScovering Music ARChives) created an international network of music archives and enables display of participant institution holdings in a common portal (www.dismarc.org). The total budget was about 2 million € of which BPA received approximately 72,000 €. Since 2009, BPA has participated in MIMO (Musical Instruments Museums Online). With other leading European musical instrument museums, MIMO will create a single access point for more than 40,000 musical instruments via Europeana. BPA will receive 116.092 € from a total budget of 1,598,931 € (www.mimo-project.eu).

Since 2008, the BPA has cooperated with the University of Chicago (Prof. Phil Bohlman) and the University of Leipzig (Prof. Sebastian Klotz) in Music as a Medium of Urban Transformation - Towards a Comparative Musicology of the Metropolis, a two-year TransCoop project of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. The project focuses on methodological issues in urban musicology drawing upon examples from Chicago, Berlin, and Calcutta. The award is for 62,124 €.

University of ChicagoDigital South Asia Library (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/). 1) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made

an award of $62,700 to the University of Chicago for the period 1997-1999 via the Association of Research Libraries for a pilot project on the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL). 2) The U.S. Department of Education, under Title VI, Section 606, has made six grants for the Digital South Asia Library. The first was during 1999-2002 for $549,960. The second was specifically for the development of digital dictionaries under DSAL. It was awarded during 1999-2002 for $444,031. The third was during 2002-2005 for $585,000. The fourth, a second phase of support for digital dictionaries, was during 2003-2006 for $530,381. The fifth was during 2005-2009 for $788,000, of which $468,000 is for DSAL. The sixth, current grant during the period 2009-2013 is for $508,000.

South Asia Union Catalogue (http://sauc.uchicago.edu/). 1) In March 2004, the Ford Foundation office in New Delhi, India, awarded a three-year grant of $90,000 to the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad, India, a member institution in the Center for South Asia Libraries, to begin the creation of Phase I of the South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC). 2) The U.S. Department of Education funded Phases III and IV of SAUC under a four-year grant to the Center for Research Libraries beginning October 2005. The total grant is for $788,000, of which $320,000 is for SAUC. 3) The National Endowment for the Humanities made a three-year grant of $248,976 to the University of Chicago in 2006 for "A Union Catalogue for South Asia, Phase II."

The Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago granted $3,000 to the Co-Project Director of this proposed project in 2008 in support of travel to London and Berlin for investigation of collections holding early audio recordings from and about South Asia.

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Consultants and Advisory Board Members

The Co-Directors will ask the following scholars to participate on the project Advisory Board:

Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Ustd. Allauddin Khan Professor, Department of Instrumental Music, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

Suresh S. Chandvankar, Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics & Material Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Hon. Secretary, Society of Indian Record Collectors

Pekka Gronow, Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of HelsinkiMonika Hagedorn-Saupe, Deputy Director, Institute for Museum Research, National Museums in

BerlinDaniel M. Neuman, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los AngelesRegula Burckhardt Qureshi, Professor Emerita, Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta and Director

of the FolkwaysAlive! project

The following scholars will be invited to serve as external evaluators:

Wolfgang Bender, Director, Director, Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim (previously Director, African Music Archive, University of Mainz)

Rudolf Brandl, Director, Phonogrammarchiv Vienna, Austrian Academy of SciencesAnthony Seeger, Professor, Ethnomusicology and Director, Ethnomusicology Archive, University of

California, Los Angeles

Special advisor:

Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago, co-editor of Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

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Appendix 1. Work Plan

This statement on tasks, agents, and their deployment complements the statement and Gantt chart presented in Section 5b of the proposal narrative.

SCHEDULE OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Prior to the Grant Period Purchase audio equipment in Chicago and ship to Chennai [by Chicago Project Manager, 5/10] Deliver the IRENE optical scanning system to Chennai [by Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory, 5/10] Conduct testing of 3D/PRISM laser system for potential use in Berlin [by Carl Haber, Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory, 6/10]First Year

Meeting of Advisory Board via conference call [by Co-Directors and Advisory Board members, 7/10 and 1/11]

Hire Audio Technician in Berlin [by Berlin Co-Director, 7/10] Advanced training in digital audio transfer for Berlin Chief Sound Technician/Ethnomusicologist

[by Library of Congress, 7/10] Travel, Berlin-Chicago for project meeting [by Berlin Co-Director, 7/11] Develop project resource and Web site [by Chicago Project Manager and Berlin Scientific

Assistant and Ethnomusicologist, 7/10-10/10] Select resources for treatment under the project [by Co-Directors and Advisory Board members,

7/10-3/11] Develop and test metadata mapping from Berlin system to MARC21 and EAD [by Berlin,

Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 7/10-9/10] Install and test audio equipment in Chennai [by Chennai Team, 7/10] Clean shellac discs in Chennai [by Chennai Team, 9/10-6/11] Audio transfer from analog to digital and conduct quality control [by Berlin Technical Team,

10/10 - 6/11] Create archival metadata and authority records and conduct quality control [by Berlin

Ethnomusicologist, 10/10 - 6/11] Training for Chennai Technical Team in digital audio transfer and conduct quality control [by

Berlin Chief Sound Technician/Ethnomusicologist, 10/10] External assessment of the project’s performance relative to copyright and ethical standards [by

Anthony Seeger, 11/10] Exchange metadata [by Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 11/10 - 6/11] Exchange digital audio and image data; archive all digital objects [by Berlin, Chicago, and

Chennai Teams, 11/10 - 6/11] Audio transfer from analog to digital and conduct quality control [by Chennai Technical Team,

12/10 - 6/11] Create bibliographic and authority records, collection information for union catalogue, and

conduct quality control [by Chennai Cataloguing Team, 12/10 - 6/11] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 12/10] Prepare semi-annual performance report to NEH and DFG [by Co-Directors, 12/10] Load archival metadata, bibliographic and authority records to project's Internet server, in

quarterly batches [by Chicago Project Manager, 1/11 - 6/11] Travel, Chicago-India and Berlin-India for project meeting [by Co-Directors, 2/11] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 6/11] Prepare semi-annual performance report to NEH and DFG [by Co-Directors, 6/11]

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Second Year Meeting of Advisory Board via conference call [by Co-Directors and Advisory Board members,

7/11 and 1/12] Travel, Berlin-Chicago for project meeting [by Berlin Co-Directors, 7/11] Audio transfer from analog to digital and conduct quality control [by Berlin and Chennai

Technical Teams, 7/11 - 6/12] Create archival metadata and authority records and conduct quality control [by Berlin

Ethnomusicologist, 7/11 - 6/12] Create bibliographic and authority records, collection information for union catalogue, and

conduct quality control [by Chennai Cataloguing Team, 7/11 - 6/12] Exchange metadata [by Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 7/11 - 6/12] Exchange digital audio and image data; archive all digital objects [by Berlin, Chicago, and

Chennai Teams, 7/11 - 6/12] Load archival metadata, bibliographic and authority records to project's Internet server, in

quarterly batches [by Chicago Project Manager, 7/11 - 6/12] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 12/11] Prepare semi-annual performance report to NEH and DFG [by Co-Directors, 12/11] Travel, Chicago-India and Berlin-India for project meeting [by Co-Directors, 2/12] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 6/12] Prepare semi-annual performance report to NEH and DFG [by Co-Directors, 6/12] Workshop on "expressive culture in South Asia" [by faculty from Berlin, Hebrew University and

University of Chicago, 6/12] External evaluation [by first appointed evaluator, 6/12]

Third Year Meeting of Advisory Board via conference call [by Co-Directors and Advisory Board members,

7/12 and 1/13] Audio transfer from analog to digital and conduct quality control [by Berlin and Chennai

Technical Teams, 7/12 - 5/13] Create archival metadata and authority records and conduct quality control [by Berlin

Ethnomusicologist, 7/12 - 5/13] Create bibliographic and authority records, collection information for union catalogue, and

conduct quality control [by Chennai Cataloguing Team, 7/12 - 6/13] Exchange metadata [by Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 7/12 - 6/13] Exchange digital audio and image data; archive all digital objects [by Berlin, Chicago, and

Chennai Teams, 7/12 - 6/13] Load archival metadata, bibliographic and authority records to project's Internet server, in

quarterly batches [by Chicago Project Manager, 7/12 - 5/13] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 12/12] Prepare semi-annual performance report to NEH and DFG [by Co-Directors, 12/12] Travel, Chicago-India and Berlin-India for project meeting [by Co-Directors, 2/13] Prepare monograph for Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series [by series editors, 4/13 -

10/13] Internal evaluation [by Co-Directors, Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 6/13] External evaluation [by second appointed evaluator, 6/13]

Following the Grant Period Prepare final evaluation and performance report on program [by Project Co-Directors and

Advisory Board, 8/13] Prepare audio CDs [by Berlin Team, 8/13 - 9/13] Exchange metadata [by Berlin, Chicago, and Chennai Teams, 8/13 - ] Exchange digital audio and image data; archive all digital objects [by Berlin, Chicago, and

Chennai Teams, 8/13 - ]

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 2, page 20

Appendix 2. Selection, Standards, Specimens, Equipment, and Archiving

Guidelines for Selection of Recordings

Selection of recording for digitization under this project will be carried out by staff in Berlin and Chennai using the following objective and guidelines. The goal of selection is to create a digital collection which is representative of the recordings produced in South Asia during the first forty years of the twentieth century and to ensure that genres of recordings are represented in proportions consonant with the recordings produced during that era. Because a parallel project under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is addressing recorded speech acts, this project will focus on music, broadly construed.

Among the commercial recordings considered for treatment in Chennai, the oldest recordings will be given priority. Recording artists will be selected based on their prominence as attested by scholarly histories of music and biographies of artists with latitude provided for selection of additional artists who may not yet have received adequate attention due to insufficient documentary evidence on their roles in South Asian music. The production of recording companies and their record labels will be reflected in proportions approximating their presence in the market. A subset of 1,200 digitized recordings will be identified for transcription based on the value to scholars of access to the full text of lyrics. The Principal Investigators will interact weekly with colleagues in Chennai during the first months of the project to address questions which arise regarding selection of gramophone recordings. The Advisory Board will contribute to interchanges on the application of selection criteria.

Because of the unique nature of the field recordings collection in Berlin, all of the recordings from that collection described in this proposal will be digitized. Photographs and other supporting documentation for the Berlin recordings will be selected for digitization based on the value of the additional resources in improving understanding of the recordings and the context of their production. Some of the documents may be secured from other archives in Europe.

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StandardsFollowing are the standards which Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project will follow.

This enumeration gathers together standards which are referenced in several sections of the narrative.

GeneralDFG Practical Guidelines on Cultural Heritage

http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/formulare/download/12_151e.rtfRecommendations of the Digital Library Federation

http://www.diglib.orgDublin Core

http://dublincore.org/PURL

http://purl.org/Unicode

http://www.unicode.org/Web Accessibility Initiative standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium

http://www.w3.org/WAI/Open Archive Initiative (OAI) technologies

http://www.openarchives.org/

Intellectual Property Rights, Copyright, and EthicsInternational Council of Museums Code of Ethics for Museums, 2006

http://icom.museum/ethics.htmlWIPO Copyright Treaty

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/wct/trtdocs_wo033.htmlTraditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions/Folklore

http://www.wipo.int/tk/enInternational Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, Copyright & Other Intellectual

Property Rightshttp://www.iasa-web.org/copyright.asp

Documentation and Archiving the Performing Arts: Issues of Intellectual Property Rights and Intangible Cultural Heritage24

http://www.archiving-performance.org/home.html

AudioSpecialized guidelines established by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual

Archives (IASA):The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (TC-03),

December 2005.http://www.iasa-web.org/downloads/publications/TC03_English.pdf

Bradley, Kevin. Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies TC-04: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. 2nd ed. 2009.

24 ?This 2009 conference supported by the Ford Foundation and the American Institute of Indian Studies began to forge a new set of understandings and best practices for dealing with cultural heritage.

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BibliographicMARC21 format

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second revised editionLibrary of Congress Rule Interpretations

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/currlcri.htmlZ39.50 protocol

http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/ead/Encoded Archival Description format

http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/ead/

ScanningBenchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials (The Digital Library

Federation)http://www.diglib.org/standards/bmarkfin.htm

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Specimens

1) Bibliographic dataThis specimen catalogue record was created from a gramophone disc label reproduced in Michael S.

Kinnear's The Gramophone Company's Indian recordings, 1908 to 1910 (Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia : Bajakhana, c2000) and supplemented from the entry in the HMV catalogue in "Nagari", January-June, 1914.

LDR *****njm\a22*****7a\4500001 <control number>007 sd\dmscnnmslua008 081002s1911\\\\ii\zzn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\urd\d028 02 $a G.C.8-12562 $b Gramophone Company028 12 $a 11510o $b Gramophone Company040 \\ $a <organization code> $c <organization code>043 \\ $a a-ii---100 0\ $6 880-01 $a Piyari Imamuddin.245 10 $6 880-02 $a Badar ghor-ghor ghir aʼe $h [sound recording].260 \\ $a [Calcutta?] : $b Gramophone Company, $c 1911.300 \\ $a 1 sound disc : $b analog, 78 rpm, mono. : $c 7 in.500 \\ $a "Gramophone Concert Record".505 0\ $a Raga malhar.510 4\ $a HMV catalogue in "Nagari", January-June, 1914, $c p. 196.546 \\ $a Sung in Urdu.650 \0 $a Ragas.650 \0 $a Songs, Urdu.880 0\ $6 100-01/(3/r $a ۔پیری امام الدین880 1\ $6 245-02/(3/r $a آائی ۔بادر گہور گہور گہر

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 2, page 24Appendix 2. Selection, Standards, Specimens, Equipment, and Data Archiving (cont.)

2) Authority dataThis specimen authority record is for an Urdu author. It demonstrates the thoroughness with which

the records will be created. In addition to the bibliographic records themselves, project cataloguers will consult standard reference books for information about composers, performing artists, and titles and then encode that reference information in the records. As with bibliographic records, the authority records created for this project will contain parallel fields (880) for alternate graphic representation of non-roman scripts. This authority record for a personal name includes 880 fields with Perso-Arabic characters.

LDR *****nz\\\22*****n\\4500001 <control number>008 050915\a\acnnnaabn\\\\\\\\\\\a\aaa\\\\\d040 \\ $a <organization code> $c <organization code>100 0\ $6 880-01 $a Sultan Gorakhpūri, $d 1920-400 1\ $6 880-02 $a Siddiqi, Sultan Ahmad, $d 1920-400 0\ $6 880-03 $a Sultan Ahmad Siddiqi, $d 1920-670 \\ $a Hindūstan ke Urdū musannifin aur shuʻara / Gopi Cand Narang (Urdū Akadami,

Dihli), 1996: $b p. 259 (Sultan Gorakhpūri, b. 1920; Daur-i Saghar, 1942; Kalam-i Mūnis, 1981; Gul posh, 1982; Ashʻar nadir ashhar, 1983; Gita manzum)

880 0\ $6 100-01/(3/r $a سلطان گورکھپوري, $d 1920-

880 1\ $6 400-02/(3/r $a صديقي ,سلطان احمد , $d 1920-

880 0\ $6 400-03/(3/r $a سلطان احمد صديقي , $d 1920-

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3) Archive metadataThe following two pages are illustrative of the archival information maintained by the Berlin Archive.

The first page is an entry with summary information on a collection of Arnold Bake's wax cylinders. The second specimen page is the first of a fourteen-page detailed enumeration of the recordings in the same collection.

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Sammlung 46: Bake Indien IIDokumentation nach einer maschinenschriftlichen Originalliste. Handschriftliche hinzugefügte Pasaagen sind kursiv wiedergegeben. Liste unvollständig.

Dr. Bake Indien bez. Indien II.1-75 Nepal

LIST OF CYLINDERS RECORDED.

Mantras1. a. 16 upacaras b. Dacadiglokapalas2. a. 5 upacaras b. from Durgatiparicodhana 1-7.3. Durgatiparicodhanamantras 8-374. D. 38-575. D. 58-766. D. 77-977. D. 98-1258. D. 126-1569. D. 157-17310. D. 174-19711. Vajradhatu 1-1912. V. 20-4513. V. 46-80

Cylinders 1-13 recited by Govaju Siddhiharsha

14. Caivamantras 1-4915. C. 50-7716. C. 78-109

Cylinders 14-16 recited by Pandit Cyama Krishna

17. Buddhist tantric mantras18. Buddhist Bana-yatra stotra19. Buddhist Lokanatha stotra20. Buddhist Svayambhunatha stotra

Cylinders 17-21 in Sanskrit recited andby Givaju Siddhiharsha

Song of Baishak:21. At Dewali-puja relating the story of the Vyaghra-jataka

Jaistha 22. Sowing the rice-seeds (Newari)Asarh 23. rupai (transplanting): masculine raga

24. rupai feminine raga25. Ichangu Narayana masc.26. Ichangu Narayana fem.

Cravana 27. a. Buddhapuja b. gae-yatra (Parbatiya)28. Buddhapuja; flute a. straight b. German

(adhinath Caubahar)29. a. Gangamai. b. Gashainsthan30. Gae yatra a. Newari b. Parbatiya

Bhadra 31. a. Indra-yatra b. spinning songAcvin 32. Durgapuja a. Parbatiya b. Newari feasting song

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 2, page 27Appendix 2. Selection, Standards, Specimens, Equipment, and Data Archiving (cont.)

4) Screen shot of a Digital South Asia Library Web pageThe image below is from a Digital South Asia Library Web site under development for audio

recordings from the Linguistic Survey of India. A similar site will be developed for presentation of audio recordings digitized under this NEH/DFG project. The site, demonstrating our capacity to deliver audio in MP3 and WAV formats, is active at https://mahimahi.uchicago.edu/drupal_test/lsi/LSI/5702AK for proposal evaluators who would like to test the functionality.

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Equipment

The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv will use equipment it already owns for this project. That hardware and software if fully capable of producing digital resources which meet the standards specified elsewhere in this proposal.

The new audio recording equipment and related digital capture equipment for use in this project will be purchased in the U.S. and delivered to the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai, India. Equipment specifications are taken from the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme25 recommendations, July 2008.

Analogue disc replay equipment for coarsegroove (shellac)Disc cleaning machine Nitty Gritty Record Master and cleaning fluidTurntable KAB Modified Technics SL 1200Cartridge Shure M44 (included with Technics turntable)Styli Expert x3 (2.8, 3.5 & 4.0 CT)Preamp Elberg MD12

Digital capture equipmentCodec: Apogee Rosetta 200 with X-Firewire 400 interfacePC (high performance, with Firewire 400 interface)

Audio editing software (Wavelab, or other, as preferred)MD5 software -- freeware

External USB RAID6 storeAudio monitoring -- Headphones or speakers

The capture equipment listed above will only be used to capture, hold, and backup data for short periods while digitization is taking place. Digital resources will be transferred to the University of Chicago each quarter for placement in a proper digital archival repository and for presentation on the Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project's Web site.

In addition, the Roja Muthiah Research Library will receive an optical scanner for use in this project. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory received a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in September 2009 for support of a project titled “Advancing Optical Scanning of Mechanical Sound Carriers: Connecting to Collections and Collaborations.” That grant includes a component for design and evaluation of a field scanner based on the highly successful two-dimensional IRENE optical scanner originally created by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and tested at the Library of Congress. More information about the IRENE system is available at http://irene.lbl.gov/.

25 ?The Programme's Web site is at http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/homepage.html.

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Data Archiving

From the Mission Statement of the University of Chicago Library's Digital Repository

The University of Chicago Library's Digital Repository is a preservation repository for digital content for which the University of Chicago Library has assumed custodial or curatorial responsibility. Its primary purpose is to ensure that this content persists through time.

Persistence in a digital context may require transformation of deposited content into new digital formats if it is expected that the originally deposited formats may become obsolete in time. At bottom, ensuring persistence requires two things: that bitstreams are physically safe (that the bits have not been corrupted or destroyed); that bitstreams are logically safe (that the bits can be converted back into usable information by a machine, such as a desktop computer, that wants to consume the bitstreams and render them meaningfully). The core responsibility of digital repository management is to ensure these two kinds of persistence.

The University of Chicago Library's Digital Repository is managed by the Digital Library Development Center (DLDC). Currently, it consists of two mirrored computer systems. Nightly, content is copied from the primary system onto a second system, which can serve as a live backup to the first in case of need. From there, content is transferred to University of Chicago Networking Services and Information Technologies' centralized TSM tape-storage system, for disaster recovery. When content is deposited into the Repository it is inspected for at-risk digital formats (formats that are currently expected to become obsolete); if detected, content in these formats is converted into formats that are expected to persist for some time.

June 10, 2009

Description of the Data Storage System at the Ethnological Museum, Berlin

The Ethnological Museum belongs to the National Museums of Berlin (SMB). This network of museums has recently introduced a storage area network (SAN) to consolidate storage capabilities for all museums of the network. The system is located centrally (in the Kulturforum) and uses doubly redundant data storage. The server is managed by the IT department of the SMB. Backup are tested in regular intervals. The IT department assured us that we can store between up to three TB each year which should be enough for present project.

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 4, page 30

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 3, page 31

Appendix 3. Work to be Outsourced

All work by the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv will be conducted at the Archive using the excellent facilities and equipment already in place. No work will be outsourced.

The University of Chicago will collaborate with the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai, India for the digitization of gramophone records and cataloguing of those resources. This work will be governed by a subcontract which is described elsewhere in this proposal. The Roja Muthiah Research Library was established in 1994 as a joint venture of the University and MOZHI, an Indian public trust. In 2005 the Roja Muthiah Research Library Trust was registered as a public trust in India. That new trust is responsible for directing the activities of the Roja Muthiah Research Library. More than thirteen years of collaboration between Chicago and the Library in Chennai have produced an exemplary facility and well-trained staff. Further, the staff is well managed and extremely efficient. The work produced in previous and current projects for preservation, access, and documentation have met or exceeded all relevant international standards. The cost of work subcontracted to the Library has consistently been below rates proposed by commercial firms in India.

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 4, page 32

Appendix 4. Curricula Vitae for Key Staff

CURRICULUM VITAE

James H. NyeBibliographer for Southern Asia and Director, South Asia Language and Area CenterJoseph Regenstein LibraryUniversity of Chicago1100 East 57th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637 Phone: (773) 702-8430 E-mail: jnye@midway.uchicago.eduDegrees:

BA Augsburg College, 1968 (philosophy) MAR Yale University, 1970 (history of religions) MS Drexel University, 1974 (library science)[PhD] University of Wisconsin-Madison, comprehensive examinations passed 1982 (South Asian

language and literature)Doctoral Dissertation:

Granthamala: A Cultural Study of Indological Publishing in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century IndiaV. Narayana Rao, Thesis Director

Experience:2008-to date, Interim Director, South Asia Language Resource Center, University of Chicago, Chicago,

Illinois1998-to date, Director, South Asia Language and Area Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois1984-to date, Bibliographer for Southern Asia, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois1974-1984, Librarian II (equivalent to Assistant Professor), Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter,

Minnesota. Tenured 1979.1973-to date, Vice President and Editor / Publisher, Musicdata, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania1971-73, Librarian, Community Legal Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Selected Major Grants:2009-13, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 606, grant for "Audio, Maps and Images of

South Asia," $508,0002006-09, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "A Union Catalogue for South Asia,

Phase II," $248,9762005-09, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 606, grant for "TICFIA South Asia," $788,0002004-07, Ford Foundation, grant for "A Union Catalogue for South Asia, Phase I," $90,0002003-06, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 605, grant for "Digital Dictionaries of South

Asia: Phase II," $530,3812003-06, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 602, grant for "Comprehensive National

Resource Center for South Asia," $1,935,1592002-06, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 603, grant for "South Asia Language Resource

Center," $1,440,0002002-05, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 606, grant for "South Asian Information

Access," $585,0001999-2002, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 602, grant for "Comprehensive National

Resource Center for South Asia," $1,475,5481999-2002, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 605, grant for "Digital Dictionaries of South

Asia," $444,0311999-2002, U.S. Department of Education, Title VI, Section 606, grant for "Digital South Asia Library,"

$549,9601996-99, Ford Foundation, grant for "Access to Tamil Performance and Folklore Literature," $250,0001995-97, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Access to Early Twentieth-Century Indian

Books: Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Konkani, and English," $261,8351994-96, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Preservation and Dissemination of

Classical and Medieval Tamil Literature," $198,7801992-94, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Microfilming Nineteenth-Century

Hindustani Books," $140,0001991-94, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Microfilming Nineteenth-Century Hindi

Books," $68,860

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 4, page 33Appendix 4. Curricula Vitae for Key Staff (cont.)

James Nye, page 2Selected Major Grants (cont.):

1989-91, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for "Preservation of Major Indological Series from the South Asian Subcontinent," $262,650

1985-88, National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for preparation of South Asian Books in Series: Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit, $232,000

Selected Publications:"Building a Multi-University Infrastructure and Digital Resources for the Teaching and Learning of

South Asian Languages," Web-based Instruction for Less Commonly Taught Languages. Palo Alto: Center for the Study of Language and Information, forthcoming 2009.

"International Information Exchange: New Configurations for Library Collaboration in South Asian Studies," (with David Magier), Collection Management, 24 (2000): 215-240.

"Toward a Sociology of South Asian Book Preservation," in Planning Modernization and Preservation Programmes for South Asian Libraries, edited by Kalpana Dasgupta. (National Library conferences, no. 5.) Calcutta: National Library, 1992.

"Textual Information Retrieval and Analysis for Indology," in Indological Studies and South Asia Bibliography, edited by Ashin Das Gupta. (National Library Conferences, no. 3.) Calcutta: National Library, 1988.

Selected Conference Panels, Seminars, and Papers:2008, "GIS in Service of Historical Bibliography" paper, Spring Forum of the Digital Library Federation,

Minneapolis2005, "'Catch and Release': An Acquisition Strategy Sensitive to Cultural Patrimony" invited paper,

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section panel, American Library Association annual conference2004, "A Union Catalogue for South Asia" paper, International Conference on the National Library

Services, National Library of India, Kolkata, India2003, "Uses of Technology in the Teaching of South Asian Languages" paper, conference at Stanford

University titled Web-based Instruction for Less Commonly Taught Languages2003, Organizer and convener, Joint meeting of the Center for South Asia Libraries and the Council of

South Asia Library Centres, Kandy, Sri Lanka2002, Organizer and convener, Planning meeting for the Center for South Asia Libraries, New Delhi,

India2001, "A Khyber Pass: The Digital South Asia Library" invited paper, Social Science Research Council,

Planning Meeting on Information Technology, cultural Mapping and the Social Sciences in the Commonwealth of Independent States

1999, "The Unprofitable World of Preservation Micrographics" invited paper, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

1996, "South Asia and the Strategic Plan for Improving Access to Global Information Resources" invited paper for a Presidential session, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

1988, "A Machine-Readable Sanskrit Lexicon" invited paper, Sanskrit Database Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Asian Studies

1988, "Toward a Sociology of South Asian Book Preservation" invited paper, Asian and African Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries at the annual meeting of the American Library Association

1984, Organizer and Chair, panel on "Computing and Sanskrit Texts" also included my paper on "Computer Photocomposition of Devanagari Texts in the United States and India" at VIth World Sanskrit Conference, Philadelphia

Memberships and Professional Offices: American Oriental Society (American Committee on South Asian Manuscripts, 1994-to date); Association for Asian Studies (Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, Executive Committee, 1988-1990; Editor of South Asia Library Notes and Queries, 1984-1988); Center for South Asia Libraries, Co-founder, Secretary / Treasurer 2000-2008, President 2008-to date; Microfilming Indian Publications Project, Steering Committee, 1989-to date; Nineteenth Century South Asia Short Title Catalog Project, Steering Committee, 1992-2001; South Asia Microform Project (Chair, 1989-1992, 1996-1999, 2006-2009; Executive Committee, 1987-1992, 1996-1999; Academic Coordinator for special projects, 1991-to date); Supervisor for Fulbright Library Interns from India, six-month internships, 1988, 1989.

Languages: Natural: Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, French (reading knowledge), German (reading knowledge). Programming: SNOBOL, PL/1, Revelation database programming

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 4, page 34Appendix 4. Curricula Vitae for Key Staff (cont.)

Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian KochDepartment Head: Ethnomusicology, Media Technology,

and Berlin Phonogram Archive, Ethnological Museum, Berlin

Curriculum Vitae

Name & Address: Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian KochBergstrasse 414542 Werder (Havel)Phone: 0049-3327-565989Germany

Date & Place of Birth: June 21, 1959 in Peine / Germany

School Education: 1966-1969 Primary School Gr. Lafferde / Germany1969-1978 Grammar School Gr. Ilsede / Germany

Higher Education: 1981-1985: Study of Ethnology at Bonn University. 11.12.85 1986: M.A. in Ethnology (Cultural Anthropology) with a thesis on Ethnomedicine The Ethnic Variants of Illness -Thoughts and

Behaviour of Illness in Tribal Cultures, published in Bonn 1986 (in German language) 1986: Study of Musicology at Bonn University 1991/92: studies at the Visva Bharati University in Santiniketan under Prof. Indranil Bhattacharya (sitar) 1994: Ph.D. thesis on a comparative study of eastern and western classical music focussed on aesthetical problems,

The Significance of the Rasa-Theory in contemporary North-Indian Classical Music - in Comparison to the Affektenlehre in the 18th- & 19th-Century Music of Europe, dissertation adviser, Prof. Dr. Emil Platen

2002: Habilitation in Ethnomusicology with a study on Rabindra Sangit, My Heart Sings Rabindra Sangit Die Lieder Rabindranath Tagores zwischen Tradition und Moderne.

Professional Appointments: 1995-97: Trainee at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart; conception, organization and realization of the exhibition „mit Haut

und Haar - Die Welt der Lauteninstrumente“ 1999: Lecturer at the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf. 2003: Head of Department of Ethnomusicology and Berlin Phonogram Archive at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. 2006/2007: Guest Professor at the University of Vienna. 2008: Professor at the University of Cologne. 2009: Guest-Professor at the University of Chicago.

Musical and Performance Qualifications:Piano- and Organ-studies under Kantor Walter Fischer / Guitar-studies under different teachers / since 1985 member of the Tagore Institute Bonn; study of Classical North-Indian Music (sitar / surbahar/ vocal / music-theory) under Dr. (Mrs.) Trina Purohit-Roy / concerts with the Tagore Institutes Ensemble / lecture-demonstration concerts

Fieldwork: 1987 Gujarat / South India / Calcutta: recordings of different styles of vocal music (Classical / Bhajans / Rabindra

Sangit); documentation of the art of sitar-manufacturing in Kolkata (slides collection) 1991/92 Scholarship from the German-Academic-Exchange-Service (DAAD) for studies at the Visva Bharati

University in Santiniketan under Prof. Indranil Bhattacharya (sitar) / in Kolkata extended studies on sitar-manufacturing with Kanailal & Brothers (slides collection) / recordings and interviews with musicians and musicologists for the Ph.D. dissertation.

1994 South Korea: research on Korean Buddhist Music (sutra-chanting) and lectures at Seoul National University/ India: research on Rabindra Sangit and sitar-manufacturing.

1995 India: video documentation on rudra-vina / surbahar / sitar-manufacturing for the „Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin“

1996-97 scholarship from the Korea Research Foundation and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for a three months study of Korean Buddhist Music and lecturing on Indian Music at several Universities in South Korea. In January 1997 lectures at the BHU (Banaras Hindu University) in Varanasi.

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 4, page 35Appendix 4. Curricula Vitae for Key Staff (cont.)

Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian Koch, page 2

1998 research in India on Rabindra Sangit preparing a project for the University of Cologne 1999 lecturer at the Department of Musicology at the University of Cologne. Working on a research project on

Rabindra Sangit – A genre of Bengali Songs between Tradition and Modernism 2000 / 2001 / 2002 fieldwork on Rabindra Sangit in Santiniketan and Kolkata. 2004 / 2006 fieldwork on Modern Bengali Songs and urban music in Kolkata. 2008 fieldwork in Kolkata on urban music cultures.

Publications (selection):2009 The Concept of Microtonality and the Construction of Indian Music in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe, in:

Sünne Juterczenka, Gesa Mackenthun (eds.): The Fuzzy Logic of Encounter – New Perspectives on Cultural Contact / Münster

2008a A preliminary archaeological report on two lutes of the Surbahar type (India) and an ethnomusicological perspectiveRicardo Eichmann – Lars-Christian Koch– Dirk-Roelfs Meyer, In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie V / Berlin

2008b Raga-Music in North India between Religious Meaning and Courtly Culture. In: Religion and Music – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Instiute for Scientific Studies of Religions, Freie Universität Berlin, May 2006 (ed. Lidia Guzy)/Berlin

2007a “rudra vina – Die Herstellung eines indischen Saitenisntruments in der Tradition Kanailal&Bros.”Museum Collection Berlin Audiovisuell / DVD-Reihe der Abtl. Musikethnologie, Medientechnik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv

2007b Lars-Christian Koch & Maurice Mengel: From Elementary Thought to Tone Psychology – Bastian and Stumpf´s Discourse of the Mind as a Condition fort he Development of Ethnomusicology. In: Adolf Bastians and his Universal Archive of Humanity / Hildesheim

2006 Lars-Christian Koch & Julio Mendívil: Objekte ohne Kontext: eine organologische Konstruktion anhand historiographischer Quellen aus der Inkazeit. Eine Anwendung an eine Sammlung vorkolumbischer Musikinstrumente, In: Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV / Berlin

2004 (mit A. Wiedmann und S. Ziegler) The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv: A treasury of sound recordings. Acoustic. Sci. & Techn. 25,4 Tokyo

2003 Kerstin Klenke, Lars-Christian Koch et al.: „ ´Todgesagte leben länger´ - Überlegungen zur Relevanz der Musikethnologie; in: Die Musikforschung 56. Jahrgang 2003 S. 261-272

2002 Lars-Christian Koch & Julio Mendívil: „Wenn die Instrumente weinen ... „ Musikpraxis und –konzeption der „Indigenas“ im Amazonas-Tiefland. In: Amazonas-Indianer – LebensRäume – LebensRituale – LebensRechte, Hrsg. Doris Kurella & Dietmar Neitzke / Stuttgart; Berlin

2001 My Heart Sings Rabindra Sangit Die Lieder Rabindranath Tagores zwischen Tradition und Moderne / Habilitationsschrift

1998 Aufgabenfelder der Musikethnologie. J. Eckert (Ed.) Indische Musik in Deutschland Aachen1996a Walter Fischer & Lars-Christian Koch: Wege zum Chorklang / Bonn.1996b Raimund Vogels & Lars-Christian Koch: „mit Haut und Haar • „Die Welt der Lauteninstrumente“ CD-ROM zur

Sonderausstellung des Linden-Museums Stuttgart / Stuttgart.1996c Lars-Christian Koch & Raimund Vogels (Hrsg.): „mit Haut und Haar - Die Welt der Lauteninstrumente“ Begleitbuch zur

Sonderausstellung des Linden-Museums Stuttgart / Stuttgart.1995 Zur Bedeutung der rasa-Lehre für die zeitgenössische Nordindische Kunstmusik -Mit einem Vergleich mit der Affektenlehre

des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. (Diss.) Bonn: Holos Verlag1989 Vielsaitige Klangerreger - Die Entwicklung der Musikinstrumentensaiten und ihre Bedeutung für den Instrumentenbau.

Musikhandel Nr. 81986 Rolle und Funktion der Musik in außereuropäischen Heilungsriten. curare Vol. 9, Zeitschrift für Ethnomedizin und

transkulturelle Psychiatrie.

Address:Prof. Dr. Lars-Christian KochLeiter der Abteilung Musikethnologie,Medientechnik und Berliner Phonogramm-ArchivEthnologisches Museum BerlinArnimallee 2714195 BerlinTel.: 030/8301-241Fax: 030/8301-500e-mail: l.koch@smb.spk-berlin.de

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Samip Mallick3553 S. Hoyne Ave. (Apt. 3R) Email: mallick@uchicago.eduChicago, IL 60609 Tel: (734) 716-6621

EDUCATION University of Illinois (July 2009 – Current)M.S. in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University (July 2006 – December 2006)Course in Ancient Indian History

American Institute of Indian Studies (September 2003 – April 2004)Advanced Language Program Fellowship to study Bengali - Kolkata, India

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (1999 – 2003)Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science

WORK EXPERIENCE University of Chicago Library (September 2008 – Current)Assistant Bibliographer for the Southern Asia CollectionDuties include:1. Helping to administer the Southern Asia collection, addressing questions of

collection development, maintenance and preservation;2. Creating and developing online resources and databases for presentation of

materials, including the Libraries & Archives in South Asia (LASA) wiki [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lasa], an online dissertation database, and redesign of the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) [http://dsal.uchicago.edu];

3. Involvement in grant writing for proposals to NSF, NEH, Dept. of Ed., etc.4. Supervisory responsibilities over student and union staff engaged in cataloging

and monograph and serial processing.

South Asian American Digital Archive (March 2008 – Current)Executive DirectorSAADA was founded in order to document and provide online access to the diverse and relatively unknown stories of South Asian Americans.1. Currently applying for 501c3 non-profit tax-free status to IRS.2. Developing a website and database for online presentation of SAADA

collections.

University of Chicago (October 2007 – August 2008)Outreach and Program Coordinator for the South Asia Language and Area Center (SALAC) & Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS) 1. Planned and executed South Asia-related programming at the University and

within greater Chicago area and formed extensive networks with other institutions to encourage collaboration and cooperation;

2. Successful fundraised for projects and events, including $50,000 from the SSRC and $8,500 from the Arts Council.

McGill University (June – August 2007)Research Assistant for Dr. Davesh Soneji in Faculty of Religious StudiesDigitized audiovisual materials for research on gender, ritual and performance in southern India.

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Samip Mallick, page 2

Social Science Research Council (August 2004 – December 2006)Program Coordinator – South Asia Program (8/2004 – 12/2006)Projects Coordinator – International Migration Program (9/2005 – 7/2006)1. Administered the Ford Foundation funded South Asia Regional Fellowship

Program for faculty at colleges/universities in South Asia;2. Organized workshops and conferences on themes related to migration &

development, migration & security, transnational religion, international collaboration in social science research, etc;

3. Developed the South Asia Research Network website database of research institutes, libraries and archives in South Asia.

Justice for Bhopal International (May – June 2003) Captured video footage of the US tour of survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster, including meetings with union leaders, student organizations, political leaders, etc.

University of Michigan – Dearborn (April – August 2002)Programmer on a project for passenger detection for automated airbag deployment in passenger vehicles.

ACTIVITIES Radiostan (October 2008 – Current) [http://www.radiostan.com]Co-producer and presenter for a one-hour monthly radio show on the South Asian community in Chicago, airing on 88.7 WLUW.

South Asian Progressive Action Collective (December 2007 – Current)Member of an organization working in the South Asian American community in Chicago. Activities include voter registration, citizenship workshops, annual arts show, etc.

AWARDS Awards: Winner of 2003 McGuigan Prize for Undergraduate Essays on women and/or gender for “The Gentle Babu and the Crazy Woman: Custodial Rape Inside and Outside the Home”Scholarships: AIIS Language Fellowship, Engineering Scholarship of Honor, Regents Merit Scholarship

LANGUAGES English [first language]; Bengali [fluent]; Hindi [basic conversational]

COMPUTER SKILLS Degree in computer science with extensive computer and programming skills. Equally comfortable in Windows and Mac OS. Proficient in MS Office Suite and web development (Drupal, Wordpress, html). Programming Languages: PHP, HTML/CSS, C/C++, JavaScript, SQL, PASCAL, BASIC

WEB DESIGN Libraries & Archives in South Asia (LASA) wikiA collaborative effort to compile a guide to libraries and archives in South Asia for academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences.- http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lasa

University of Chicago Dissertations on Southern AsiaA database of Ph.D. dissertation abstracts on topics related to Southern Asia in all disciplines beginning in 1914. Contains over 550 abstracts.- http://southernasiadissertations.uchicago.edu

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Maurice MengelEthnomusicology, Media Technology and Berlin Phonogram Archive

Ethnological Museum, National Museums in BerlinPrussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Arnimallee 27, 14195 Berlinm.mengel@smb.spk-berlin.de

EducationCurrent Doctoral Candidate in Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne

Expected graduation, March 2010.Dissertation Topic: History of the Romanian folk music archive Institut de Etnografie şi Folclor in Bucharest. Advisor: Lars-Christian Koch, University of Cologne.

2003 M.A. in Musicology, Cultural Anthropology, and English,University of Cologne.

Recent Work Experiencesince 2006 SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT for three digital archive programs

(DISMARC, ethnoArc, and ILKAR), Berlin Phonogram Archive, Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

2004-2006 APPRENTICE MUSEUM ASSISTANT, Berlin Phonogram Archive,Ethnological Museum.

Honors & Awards2009 Ethnomusicological Research Today – An International Doctoral Workshop, University

of Music and Drama Hanover, 24-27 June.2006 German Academic Community (DFG) grant, 51st SEM conference, Honolulu, USA,

November 2006.2005 Visiting researcher, Library of the Romanian Academy1999 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant,

International summer course on Romanian language and culture, Iaşi, Romania.1998 European Union grant through University of Jyväskyla,

Intensive program in cognitive musicology, Jyväskyla, Finland.

Professional MembershipsMember, International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)Member, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)Member, European Seminar for Ethnomusicology (ESEM), member of the coordinating committeeMember, Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), study group on ethnomusicologyMember, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)

Publications

Single author:in press, New Country, New Song: On Utopia in Romanian Ethnomusicology of the Early Socialist Era.

Proceedings of the ICTM study group on historical sources meeting in Stockholm 2008.in press, The Challenge of Technology: Ethnomusicological Archives in the Past and Present.

Forthcoming special issue on folk music archives of the Romanian Journal Ethnografie şi Folclor.

2009 Des archives poussiéreuses à l'avenir numérique: Nouveaux défis pour l'ethnomusicologie In edited by Laurent Aubert, Tabou: Vol. 6. Mémoire vive. Hommages à Constantin Brăiloiu 161–181.

2007 "The Age of Archives in Early Romanian Ethnomusicology: Towards a Paradigm of the Archive Between 1927 and 1943." European Meetings in Ethnomusicology 12:146–168.

2006 Review of "Rainer Polak: Festmusik als Arbeit, Trommeln als Beruf, Berlin: Reimer 2004" (in German), in: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 131.

2002 Conditions, possibilities and limitations of the biography in ethnomusicological research (in German), master's thesis, University of Cologne.

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Maurice Mengel, page 2

Co-authored:Lars-Christian Koch & Maurice Mengel2007 From Elementary Thought to Tone Psychology. Bastian and Stumpf's discourse on the Mind

as a Condition for the Development of Ethnomusicology. In: Fischer, Manuela; Bolz, Peter; Kamel, Susan (Ed.): Adolf Bastian and his universal archive of humanity. The origins of German anthropology. Hildesheim, Zürich: Olms.

Maurice Mengel & Jin Hyun Kim2002 "Art as a Symbol System: Inquiries into Artistic Expression According to Nelson Goodman's

Theory of Symbols" (in German), study group report for SFB 427 Media and Cultural Communication. http://www.unikoeln.de/phil-fak/muwi/hpa7_2002/ Kunst_als_Symbolsystem.pdf

Presentations2009• Presented paper, Creating the Own by Selling the Other: Commercial Folklore Productions on

Romania’s Socialist Market, Annual Conference of British Forum For Ethnomusicology, Liverpool, April.

2008• Presented paper, "ethnoarc – Musikethnologie vernetzt", Autumn Conference of the Study Group

on Documentation of the German Museum Council, Berlin, October.• Presented paper, "Limba de lemn: The Mechanics of the Political Rhetoric in Romanian

Ethnomusicology from the 1950s to the 1970s", 24th Meeting of the European Seminar in Ethnomusioclogy (ESEM), Warsaw, September.

• Presented paper, "Metadata interoperability of digital archives." "Technical challenges and developments in 21st century folk music archiving" conference, Budapest, June.

• Presented paper, "Ethnomusicological Research in the Service of the Working Class: Folclor Nou in Romanian Ethnomusicology from the 1950s to the 1970s.”Stockholm, ICTM Study Group Historical Sources, April.

2007• Presented paper, "Working with Ethnocentrism: Considerations on Knowledge and Power in

Current Projects related to Digital Ethnomusicological Archives", ESEM, Lisbon, October.• Moderated Roundtable, "The DISMARC project: Discovering Music Archives", ICTM, Vienna,

Austria, July.

2006• Presented paper, "Archive as Agents – The Construction of Tradition in Romanian

Ethnomusicology", 51st SEM conference, Honolulu, USA, November.• Presented paper, "Ar'chiv [gr.-lat.] das: 1. Zur Problematik eines scheinbar unproblematischen

Schlüsselbegriffs in der Musikforschung". Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Munich, Oktober.• Presented paper, "Aspects of folk song in Romania: Maria Tănase between muzica populară and

folcor," ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources, Berlin, Germany, March.

2005• Presented paper, "Muzica si identitatea naţională: teorii, metode si rezulate din ultimii ani",

Colocviile Brăiloiu, Bucharest, Romania, October.• Presented paper, "The Age of Archives in Early Romanian Ethnomusicology: Towards a Paradigm

of the Archive between 1927 and 1943". 21st Meeting of ESEM, Cologne, Germany, August.• Invited speaker, Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Talk

entitled "Erzähltes und Klangliches: Biographien rumänischer Musikern", Berlin, Germany, June.• Presented paper together with Lars-Christian Koch, "Vom Elementargedanken zur

Tonpsychologie: Zur Bedeutung idealistischer und materialistischer Tendenzen bei Bastian und Stumpf für die gegenwärtige Musikethnologie" at conference. "Adolf Bastians Erbe im Ethnologischen Museum – ein universales Archiv der Menschheit?", Berlin, February.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Sundar GanesanDirector Roja Muthiah Research Library3rd Cross Road, CPT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600 113Phone: (044) 2254 2551 & 2554 2552; Mobile: 9444042456Email: sundargee@dataone.in

Degrees:

Registered for a Ph. D. programme (Department of History, Madras Christian College), University of Madras; Research Topic: Text-book Culture in Colonial Tamilnadu..

B. L. I. S. - University of Madras, ChennaiM. A. - History, University of Madras, ChennaiP. G. Diploma in Yoga Studies, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, Chennai

Experience:

2005- Director, Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL), Chennai, a project of University of Chicago Library, USA and Roja Muthiah Research Library Trust, Chennai, India.

2001- 2004 - Director In-charge; 1997 to 2001 - Assistant Director (Micrographics); 1994 to 1997, Library Assistant, RMRL.

1992–1994 - Research Assistant, Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, Chennai.

Conferences, Exhibitions and workshops:

2009, Presented a paper “Indus Scripts: Text and Context” for a Course on Indus Scripts during May at University of Washington, USA.

2008, A short training programme at the British Library Conservation Centre on Conservation of Library material, received a travel grant from Association of British Scholars, Chennai Chapter.

2008, Presented a paper on “Collection Development Policy of the Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai” at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.

2006, Presented a paper on “History of publishing in Tranquebar”, Gurukkul Theological College, Chennai, India.

2006, Participated in Association of Asian Studies Conference, San Francisco, USA.2006, Presented on “Roja Muthiah Research Library – An Overview” at Committee on South Asian Libraries

and Documentation, University of Berkeley, USA.2006, Presented a paper on “Trends in archiving Library material” at Delhi School of Economics, Sociology

Department, New Delhi, India.2005, Organizing committee member of National Conference on “Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Digital

Libraries” in Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.2004, Presented a paper on “Archiving Documents – trends and practices” in Goa, India, organized by

Archives & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, AIIS, New Delhi, India.2004, Participated in three Conferences – (1) ETD 2004 (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation 2004) held in

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky and (2) JCDL 2004 (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004) held in Tucson, Arizona, USA. (3) New Delhi, India.

2002-2003, Participated in meeting of the Council of South Asia Library Centres, Kandy, Sri Lanka and New Delhi, India.

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Sundar Ganesan, page 2

2000, Visited UK for a training programme to learn digitization techniques at the Wicks & Wilson company, manufacturers of microfilm/fiche scanners. Visited the Wellcome Institute for the History of Understanding Medicine, U. K. to learn the techniques of conservation. Received training under Mr. Tony Bish (Head, Conservation) and Ms. Anna Wise. Also visited the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Preservation Office, British Library, London and Bodleian Library, Oxford to see their collection and observe their conservation, bibliographic and digitization practices and efforts.

1996, Coordinated and participated in Workshop on Care, Handling and Preservation of Library Collections held at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai (Course Director Mr. Tony Bish, Head of Conservation, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK).

1995, Coordinated and participated in Workshop on Archival Microfilming, held at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai (Course Director Mr. Julio Berrios, Chief Micrographer, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. USA).

Institutional Grant Awards2008, Endangered Archives Programme, British Library, for preserving literature on the history of

Tamilnadu2007, Central Institute for Indian Languages, Mysore, for Indus Research Centre, an unit of Roja Muthiah

Research Library2005, Ford Foundation grant to conduct seminar on “Regionality, Identity & History Writing” at the Roja

Muthiah Research Library, Chennai - USD 12000.00.

Consultations2008, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for setting up an institutional archives.2006, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, for setting up of preservation programme.2004, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for setting up an archives for preserving and accessing

documents in the Institute.2003, Ray Society, the Society for preservation of Satyajit Ray’s films, Kolkata to assess their conservation

and digitization practices and provide appropriate recommendations.2003, For UNESCO - to visit Sri Lanka Library Association to evaluate their capabilities in imparting

training for the Jaffna Public Library (JPL), Jaffna and to evaluate the needs, capacities and assess the collection of JPL, Jaffna.

2002, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata to provide recommendations on microfilm preservation and digitization.

2001, Tamilnadu State Archives, Chennai for purchase of preservation equipment.

Exhibitions2008, Curated and organized exhibitions on “Gandhi in Tamilnadu”, “Indus Civilization”, “Chennai and Independence movement”, “Early Propagation of Music: Print and Gramophone”, “Early Imprints of Madras”.

Memberships: Madras Library Association (MALA), Chennai; Council of South Asia Library Centres (CSALC); Tamil Digital Libraries Network (TADILNET)Languages known: English, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal DetailsName, Surname: Wiedmann, Albrecht

Date of Birth: May, 25th, 1959

Nationality: German

Status: Married, 2 children

Address: Zimmermannstraße 29, D-12163 Berlin, Germany

Tel.: +49 (30) 7040271

Email: awiedmann@arcor.de

Work ExperienceOctober 2004 to present

Sound technician at the Department of Ethnomusicology, Ethnological Museum, State Museums of Berlin, Foundation Prussian Heritage.

Digitalisation of audio/video; management of audio-visual archive; mastering of Audio-CDs to be published by the department; assistance in realisation and organization of exhibitions; customers support.

June 1998 to February 2003 (part time, temporary)

Technical management of the “Berlin Wax Cylinder Project” at the Department of Ethnomusicology, Ethnological Museum, State Museums of Berlin, Foundation Prussian Heritage:

Digitalisation and preservation of the historic ethnographic Edison cylinder collection at the department; sound restoration; publication of articles; database management; customers support.

December 1991 to September 2003 (part time)

Sound technician at the Department for Comparative Musicology at the Free University Berlin:

Management of the audio-visual archive at the department; customer support and assistance for the scientific staff.

April 1986 to March 1989

Student assistant at the Department for Comparative Musicology at he Free University Berlin:

Customer service in the library of the department; assistance of scientific staff.

April 1979 to December 1982

Sound technician at RIAS Berlin (Radio station in Berlin):

Tape editing; assistance during live broadcasts and live recordings

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Albrecht Wiedmann, page 2

Education and Training1992

Master degree in Comparative Musicology at the Free University Berlin. Thesis on Turkish folk music. Secondary subjects: Musicology and Journalism.

1978

Training as Sound technician at the “School for Radio Engineering” in Nuremberg.

Skills

Languages

German: excellent knowledge, spoken and written (mother tongue)

English: very good knowledge, spoken and written

French: good knowledge, spoken and written

Computer Literacy

Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional, Mac OS X, Linux

Office applications: Microsoft Office, Open Office

Sound Editing / Mastering: Wavelab, Samplitude, Diamond Cut Six (sound restoration)

Other Skills

Experience in field research:

1986 Turkey, 1993 West Africa: Audio recordings of oral traditions (music and spoken word)

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Curriculum Vitae

R. PrakashAssistant Director & Head, DocumentationRoja Muthiah Research Library3rd Cross RoadCentral Polytechnic CampusTaramani, Chennai 600 113 Phone: (91) 44 2254 2551Tamil Nadu, India Email: ira.prakash@gmail.com

EXPERIENCE

2006- Quality Control team member South Asia Union Catalogue Project1997- Assistant Director Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai1994-1997 Library Assistant Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai

DEGREES

1994 Master degree in Library and information Science, University of Madras, Chennai1992 B.Sc. in Library and information Science, Bharathidasan University, Trichy

FELLOWSHIPS

2006 SAUC II project grant for participating PCC NACO Name Authority Institute, Name Authority Training program

2001 Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) British Council, “Professional Visits to United Kingdom”, £1700

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

2008 Workshop on MARC 21, AACR II and LCSH for Librarians in Bangladesh at BRAC University, Dhaka

2008 Documenting Imprints – cataloguing process for South Asia Union Catalogue participating libraries at Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Nepal

2007 Three day workshop on Documentation of Printed Resources for Libraries and Archives for Social Science librarians at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai

2007 Training on AACRII for the SAUC cataloguers, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

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CURRICULUM VITAE

V. KumarTechnical Officer, DigitizationRoja Muthiah Research Library3rd Cross RoadCentral Polytechnic CampusTaramani, Chennai, 600 113Tamil Nadu, India Phone: (91) 44 2254 2552 E-mail: kumarrmrl@gmail.com

Degrees:

Bachelor Degree in Commerce, University of Madras, 1998Bachelor Degree in Library Science, Annamalai University 2005

Experience:

1999-2007 Technical Officer, Digitization, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai1997-1998 Library Assistant, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai1992-1997 Clerk, Kumar and Sons (Share consultants), Chennai

Technical skills and responsibilities:

Overall supervision of the digitization activitiesDigitization of microfilm rolls using a Wicks and Wilson ScanstationEditing, cropping and quality control of digital imagesCoordinating all reprographic workProviding training in digitization

Conferences and workshops attended:

2008, Three day workshop on “Setting up an Archive”, at Roja Muthiah Research Library.2007, Three day workshop on “Documentation of Printed Resources for Libraries and Archives”, at Roja Muthiah Research Library.2002, Workshop on “Library Access and Preservation” for library and archives professionals in Tamilnadu at Roja Muthiah Research Library.

Languages known: Tamil, English

Nationality: Indian

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Appendix 5. Letters of Commitment

Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage, Appendix 5, page 47Appendix 5. Letters of Commitment (cont.)

Mr James NyeBibliographer for Southern AsiaThe University of Chicago LibraryThe Joseph Regenstein Library1100 East 57th StreetChicago, IL 60637

October 10, 2008

Dear James,

I was pleased to learn of the joint proposal with the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv which you will submit to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Music, ethnomusicology, and the presence of South Asian expressive culture at the University of Chicago would be enriched by the grant.

Studies in South Asian music are growing at the University with our recent appointment of Kaley Mason, an ethnomusicologist working on hereditary musicians and musical practices in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala, and Philip Bohlman's Three-City Project (Chicago-Berlin-Kolkata), which was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We are looking forward to visiting professor Lars-Christian Koch's arrival next spring as Residential Fellow at the Center for Disciplinary Innovation in conjunction with Philip's project.

The Recovery of South Asia Recorded Heritage project will produce valuable resources for music and ethnomusicology in Chicago and elsewhere. Four of our students are writing dissertations on topics which illustrate the value of the digitized resources you plan to distribute. They are on Sufi music in Madrassas of Bangladesh, devotional Hindu music in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, drumming in Sri Lanka, and the establishment of classical dance canons in modern India.

The Department of Music fully supports the exciting initiative you are proposing. We wish you every success with the application for funding.

Yours sincerely,

Martha FeldmanActing Chair

1010 EAST 59TH STREET CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60637TELEPHONE: 773-702-8484 FAX: 773-753-0558 WEB SITE: MUSIC.UCHICAGO.EDU

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Budget Explanation for Subcontract with theRoja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai, India

1. Salaries and WagesActivities of staff are described in Sections 5 and 6 of the narrative. The budget for staff in India is

based on current salaries plus increases of 3.5% per year.Staff in India will consist of: 1 part-time administrator responsible for project management in India

(G. Sundar, .10 FTE); 1 part-time professional librarian as head of cataloguing (R. Prakash, .15 FTE); 1 part-time technical officer as head of digitization (V. Kumar, .15 FTE); 1 full-time professional librarian for cataloguing; 2 full-time technicians for record digitization; and 1 full-time technician for quality control. Annual salaries supported by the NEH grant will range from $8,400 to $3,450 per FTE. While these salaries may seem meager by U.S. standards, they are excellent relative to salaries at other libraries in the subcontinent. They meet or exceed the standards set by the University Grants Commission of India for librarians and library assistants.

2. Fringe BenefitsFringe benefits are at the rate of 10% of salaries.

3. Consultant FeesNo expenses for consultants are included.

4. TravelTravel within South Asia will be via economy air service. This travel is for an estimated 5

participants each year to attend training workshops on cataloguing and digitization of gramophone records.

One round trip from South Asia to the U.S. will be supported with NEH funds during each of the first two years. Travel is for consultation with project staff in Chicago and the project Advisory Board as well as advanced training in digitizing sound recordings as described in Section 5 of the narrative. Airfare is at a projected price of $1,800 for a round-trip during the first year and $1,900 during the second year at economy rates via United Airlines with tickets purchased at discount prices. Subsistence of $150 per day is budgeted which is 55% of the U.S. General Services Administration per diem for Chicago.

5. Supplies and MaterialsItems to be purchased are enumerated in Appendix 2. Prices are based on quotations from the

Campus Computer Store at the University of Chicago for 2 Pentium desktop computers made in the U.S. and the manufacturer of 2 Nitty Gritty disc cleaning machines; 2 Elberg preamps; 2 Apogee hardware and software units for digital capture.

6. ServicesExpenses for staff training in digitization and cataloguing by a technician from the Berliner

Phonogramm-Archiv and staff of the Roja Muthiah Research Library include duplication of materials for students, housing, food, and rental of meeting space. Training will take place during the first year.

7. Other CostsNo other expenses are included.

8. Total Direct Costs9. Indirect Costs

The 10% rate on NEH direct costs is a modest request by the Roja Muthiah Research Library. The Library has no predetermined, Federally-approved rate.

10. Total Project Costs